noun🔗Share赘生物,增生物 Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else."The doctor removed the small, fleshy excrescence from the patient's skin during the check-up. "医生在体检时从病人皮肤上移除了一小块肉质的赘生物。bodymedicinebiologyanatomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share赘疣,赘生物。 A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct."The old tree had a large, ugly excrescence growing from its trunk, making it look diseased. "那棵老树的树干上长了一个又大又丑的赘生物,看起来像是生病了。appearancebodymedicineChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share赘音,增音. The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2)."The added "p" sound in some pronunciations of "warmth" is an example of an excrescence, a consonant inserted where it doesn't originally belong. "在一些“warmth”的发音中,额外增加的“p”音就是一个“赘音/增音”的例子,这指的是在原本不该出现辅音的地方插入了一个辅音。languagelinguisticsphoneticsgrammarwordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading