To the devotee of velvety green lawns dandelions are an excrescence and he or she will go after them by hand, by herbicide, or both.
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In the case of certain orchids and pea family, it is used to refer to the wart-like excrescences that are found on the roots.
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My use of the term management " gurue " to describe consultant Nancy Austin was " an excrescence, " he wrot STORY IN e.
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Why couldn't I be bandylegged and knock-kneed instead of having these two bulbous excrescences dribbling down, down, down the front of my body?
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"We have seen within these last few years, especially, this excrescence of the body politic grow until now it has become malignant, " Byrd said.
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The entire plant is more or less resinous, and the dark-brown bark has numerous warty excrescences and is easily wounded, producing large callosities as it heals.
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Or a shrunken, mud-colored papier-mache pirate's head protruding from an aqua seascape canvas, a truly astonishing, bowling-ball-size excrescence.
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The twigs are smooth, reddish-green, becoming light gray in their second year, finally dark brown or brownish gray, marked with dark wart-like excrescences.
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A gall-forming fungus species of " Phomopsis " can produce warty excrescences ranging from small twig galls to very large trunk burls on northern hickories and oaks.
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Crutches with flexed feet; crutches crusted with tumorlike excrescences; crutches cruelly bent, like broken limbs : Hruby gives you an immense amount to look at _ and think about.
