excrescence
| Definition: | (noun) Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. |
| Synonyms: | extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, bulge, protrusion, protuberance, swelling, bump, prominence |
| Usage: | A roof, Richard contended, was a part of the edifice that the ancients always endeavored to conceal, it being an excrescence in architecture that was only to be tolerated on account of its usefulness. Discuss. |
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