Usually means: Extra growth; unnecessary, excessive addition.
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  1. excrescent: Merriam-Webster
  2. excrescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excrescent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excrescent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excrescent: Vocabulary.com
  6. excrescent: Wordnik
  7. excrescent: Wiktionary
  8. excrescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. excrescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Excrescent, excrescent: Dictionary.com
  11. Excrescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. excrescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. excrescent: Rhymezone
  14. Excrescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. excrescent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. excrescent: FreeDictionary.org
  17. excrescent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. excrescent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excrescent: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. excrescent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. excrescent: Medical dictionary

(Note: See excrescently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (excrescent)

noun:  A growing mutation, usually abnormal.
noun:  (historical linguistics) A sound in a word without etymological reason.
adjective:  Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

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