excrudescence

plural excrudescences

1. A symbolic abnormal outgrowth.

   "His beard seemed to bristle like an excrudescence of pain."

   1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, 'The One Tree, page 29

   2 more examples

   "To complicate the Apillonian allusion in this well-centered landscape, Apollo's relationship to water remains complex: to establish the oracle at Delphi, Apollo kills the Python, a giant (female) excrudescence raised from the mud of the flood, as it lies by a clear spring."

   1994, Katherine Kearns, 'Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite, page 23

   "She's wallowing in the sloughed excrudescence of my earthly self; she's gumming the punctured and bruised dermis of the hand that feeds."

   2006, Nancy K. Stade, 'The Desert Crop, page 354