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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ex·cres·cent a.  Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
    Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts.   --Pope.
 Excrescent letter Philol., a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.
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