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caruncle|kəˈrʌŋk(ə)l, ˈkærʌŋk(ə)l|
Also 9 caruncule, and 8–9 in Lat. form caruncula.
[ad. 16th c. F. caruncule ‘a little peece of flesh’, Cotgr. (mod.F. caroncule), ad. L. caruncula, dim. of caro, carnem flesh.]
1. A small fleshy excrescence: applied in Anatomy to certain natural formations, as the lachrymal and urethral caruncles, the wattles of the turkey-cock, etc. In Pathol. formerly applied to a stricture.
1615Crooke Body of Man 143 Caruncles or teats, with very fine perforations..opening into the..pipes of the Vreters. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., A caruncle like a tongue. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 306/1 The Caruncles [are] knotty pieces of flesh, hanging about the Bill..as in Turky-cocks. 1720Becket in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 51 A Caruncle in the Urethra. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 255 At the inner corner of the eye..stands a caruncle. 1871Darwin Desc. Man II. xii. 13 The fleshy caruncles on the heads of certain birds.
2. Bot. ‘An excrescence at or about the hilum of certain seeds’ (Gray).
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 144 Having a remarkable tumour, called a caruncula, at one end of the seeds. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 328 Cuticle brown, caruncle large.
Hence caruncled a. = carunculate.
1870Hooker Stud. Flora 366 Seeds caruncled. |