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excrescência

excrescence

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This excrescence of money for nothing has been behind many of our social and economic ills. www.telegraph.co.uk

An excrescence is an outgrowth, usually of a morbid or disfiguring nature. www.independent.co.uk

But make no mistake: the film is an excrescence, the type of desperate act you get when a comedian has dried. www.3aw.com.au

Although not knowing precisely what it was, he described it as a cancerous fungous excrescence. en.wikipedia.org

Males have femoral glands, and in the breeding state, spiny nuptial excrescences. en.wikipedia.org

Another dismal excrescence of the seventies. www.newyorker.com

Whenever excrescences are encountered, an initiating and an exorcising amulet are placed over them, then they can no longer conceal or transform themselves. en.wikipedia.org

One source derives the meaning as corn excrescence, using "cutla" again and maize "tlalli". en.wikipedia.org

Many of the leaves have small green or red ligulate excrescences or projections. en.wikipedia.org

There are human cadaveric specimens that show outgrowings, but these are instead classified as osteomas or other excrescences. en.wikipedia.org

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