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Sibbens :: Sibbens (n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch..

Gall :: Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut..

Wenny :: Wenny (a.) Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence..

Excrement :: Excrement (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.

Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

Excrescence :: Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant..

Excrescential :: Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence..

Warty :: Warty (a.) Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence..

Spongy :: Spongy (a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones..

Pomiferous :: Pomiferous (a.) Bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less resembling an apple..

Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..

Catheretic :: Catheretic (n.) A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.

Horn :: Horn (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout..

Bouillon :: Bouillon (n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..

Excrescency :: Excrescency (n.) Excrescence.

Superfamily :: Superexcrescence (n.) Something growing superfluously.

Rat-tail :: Rat-tail (n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

Keloid :: Keloid (a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin..

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

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