misgrowth

English

Etymology

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 […]

Anagrams

• growthism