caruncle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: caruncle	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for caruncle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
caruncle n an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds Synonym(s): caruncle, caruncula
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Caruncle \Car"uncle\, d8Caruncula \[d8]Carun"cu*la\, n. [L. caruncula a little piece of flesh, dim. of caro flesh.] 1. (Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye. 2. (Bot.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.