excrescent
- Noun. Something growing, usually abnormally, out of something else.
- Noun. (phonetics) A sound in a word without etymological reason.
This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.