| crescentia | (n) a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches, Syn. genus Crescentia |
| calabash | (n) tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds, Syn. Crescentia cujete, calabash tree |
| Excrescential | pos>a. Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [ R. ] Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ] |