excrescence
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The ceiling was unbreached, the man said, and added, a little starchily, that the excrescence clearly was what it appeared to be.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
To press a button and see your own excrescence appear in the preordained format, minted, can feel like a kind of magic.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2020
Things didn't improve from there, with The Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2018
Its head is a sculptural confection of broken cycles, its rear a writhing excrescence of black rubber loops.
From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017
Another irregularity of the pock is what is familiarly termed the raspberry excrescence.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various