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An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development.
And having enquir'd into the History of Cork, I find it reckoned as an excrescency of the bark of a certain Tree […].
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Excrescency means An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development.
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And having enquir'd into the History of Cork, I find it reckoned as an excrescency of the bark of a certain Tree […].
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