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单词 excrescence
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excrescence
noun[C]
uk
/ekˈskres.əns/us
/ekˈskres.əns/
formal
anunusualgrowthon ananimalor one ofitsorgansor on aplant
赘生物；赘疣；瘤
literary
somethingconsideredto be veryugly:
丑陋不堪之物；大煞风景之物
The newofficedevelopmentis an excrescenceonthefaceof thecity.新近开发的写字楼破坏了市容市貌。
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Swellings & lumps
Not attractive to look at
(Definition ofexcrescencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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excrescence
Infinitely plastic, ectoplasm was supposedly capable of being molded either into excrescences protruding from the medium's body or into a separate entity.
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Strange as it may seem, we are discussing, stripped of the irrelevances and the excrescences and the asides, the most vital question before this country.
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Provided that he had an original strain of good dairy cattle to work upon, he was not concerned about the superficial excrescences of his animals.
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We have the materials, and we have the labour, but too much of that is being used for building the excrescences of commerce and industry.
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He mentioned the estates that were being demolished and the fact that the excrescences were coming down.
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To-day anomalies are relatively small and unimportant compared with the mass; they are excrescences.
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Many of the architects have bad taste; they produce tall hotels with blank-looking exteriors and flat tops, except for excrescences such as the top of lift shafts.
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All these boards are unnecessary excrescences.
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They are excrescences, as it were.
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Let us use that income to remove the worst excrescences on the north side of the base, and let us support the imaginative proposal—a local initiative—for a sports complex.
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Many of the leaves have small green or red ligulate excrescences or projections.
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The male has an external subgular vocal sac and black nuptial excrescences on the thumb.
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Males have femoral glands, and in the breeding state, spiny nuptial excrescences.
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There are human cadaveric specimens that show outgrowings, but these are instead classified as osteomas or other excrescences.
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Branchlets dark reddish brown, shining, covered with small excrescences.
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