Excrescence
[ɪk'skres(ə)ns;eks-] or [ɪk'skrɛsns]
解释:
(noun.) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body.
编辑:鲁弗斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant.
手打:托德
同义词及近义词:
n. Wart, tumor, morbid protuberance.
巴纳德编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Superfluity, redundancy, imposthume, tumor
ANT:Eradication, extirpation, excision, levigation, exsection
西里尔整理
解释:
n. that which grows out unnaturally from anything else: an outbreak: a wart or tumour: a superfluous part.—ns. Ex′crement an outgrowth; Excres′cency state of being excrescent: excrescence.—adjs. Excres′cent growing out: superfluous; Excrescen′tial.
校对:莱斯利
例句:
- While we stood looking, a wart, or an excrescence of some kind, appeared on the jaw of the Sphynx. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- My person, with its human powers and features, seem to me a monstrous excrescence of nature. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- For, it inscrutably appeared to stand to reason, in the minds of the whole company, that I was an excrescence on the entertainment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
整理:罗德尼