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excrescent

/ik-skres-uhnt/US // ɪkˈskrɛs ənt //UK // (ɪkˈskrɛsənt) //

排泄物,排泄性,排泄的,排泄

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : growing abnormally out of something else; superfluous.
    • : Phonetics. inserted or added as a result of articulatory interaction or impetus, as the t-sound in sense or against, without grammatical or historical justification; intrusive; parasitic.

Examples

  • It was a prodigious white fang excrescent from the jaw of the world.

  • The insertion of excrescent p occurs after m in other words in Chaucer; as in solempne, dampne.

  • Round and about the tent and on its excrescent flooring were heaped our boxes, otherwise the wind would have blown it over.

  • An excrescent b, as in chimbley and fambly, seems to be native.

  • Skeat explains this form as fallen with an excrescent d, due to Scandinavian influence, citing also Bk.