supercrescence

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noun

Something that grows on another growing thing; a parasite.

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Meanings

nounsupercrescence (plural supercrescences)

plural supercrescences

  1. obsoleteSomething that grows on another growing thing; a parasite.

    wherever it groweth, it is of constant shape, and maintains a regular figure; like other supercrescences, and such as living upon the stock of others are termed parasitical plants

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

See supercrescent.

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