excrescence

英 [ɪk'skresns] 美 [ɪk'skresns]

• n. 赘生物；瘤；自然长出物

英英释义

Noun:

1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings;

   "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"
   "the hump of a camel"
   "he stood on the rocky prominence"
   "the occipital protuberance was well developed"
   "the bony excrescence between its horns"
   

2. (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. In my opinion,the new museum extension is an excrescence.
   依我的观点，这座新博物馆扩建的部分是个累赘。
2. The new office block is an excrescence.
   这座新办公楼很是煞风景。

经典引文

• The awful modern excrescences that monopolized the townsthe hot-dog stands.., the Moorish motels.

  出自： J. A. Michener

词汇搭配

• glacier excrescence 冰川上的隆起状...
• cauliflower excrescence 花椰菜样赘疣...

近反义词

【近义词】

• outgrowth 自然的发展
• protuberance 瘤
• swelling 肿胀物
• lump 块
• offshoot 分枝
• carbuncle 红玉
• tumour <英>肿瘤
• appendage 附加物
• knob 旋钮
• monstrosity 巨大而丑陋之物...
• eyesore 剌眼的东西
• blot 污点
• growth 【U】增长
• extrusion 挤出
• gibbosity 隆起
• bump 碰撞
• jut 突出
• protrusion 隆起物
• bulge 膨胀
• prominence 突出物
• gibbousness gibbous的名词形式...
• hump 驼背