misgrowth

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ growth.

Noun

misgrowth (countable and uncountable, plural misgrowths)

  1. An unnatural or abnormal growth.
    • c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Henry More
      […] their physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic and a misgrowth of entia rationalia, that is, substantiated abstractions […]

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