different between sprout vs excrescence

English

Etymology

From Middle English spruten, from Old English spr?tan, from Proto-Germanic *spreutan?. Doublet of spruit.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sp?a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /sp???t/
• Rhymes: -a?t, -??t

Noun

sprout (plural sprouts)

1. A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
2. A child.

3. A Brussels sprout.

4. A bean sprout.
5. An edible germinated seed.

Translations

Verb

sprout (third-person singular simple present sprouts, present participle sprouting, simple past and past participle sprouted)

1. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow from seed; to germinate.

2. (transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.

3. (transitive) To deprive of sprouts.

4. (intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface.

6. (figuratively, intransitive) To emerge or appear haphazardly

Synonyms

• ackerspyre (Chester)

Related terms

• unsprouted
• brussel sprout

Translations

Anagrams

• Portus, Proust, Stroup, Troups, stupor

English

Etymology

From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excr?scere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + cr?scere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sk??s?ns/, /?k?sk??s?ns/

Noun

excrescence (plural excrescences)

1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:

     Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
3. (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [?w?rmp?] (adding a [p] between [m] and [?]), or -t (Etymology 2).

   Synonym: vyanjanabhakti

   Antonyms: svarabhakti, anaptyxis

   Hypernym: epenthesis

Hyponyms

• (phonetic): linking consonant

Related terms

• excrescency
• excrescent

Translations

See also

• (phonetic): intervocalic

References