| 单词 | carbuncle |
| 释义 | carbuncle /kahr"bung keuhl/, n. 1. Pathol. a painful circumscribed inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, resulting in suppuration and sloughing, and having a tendency to spread somewhat like a boil, but more serious in its effects. 2. a gemstone, esp. a garnet, cut with a convex back and a cabochon surface. 3. Also called London brown. a dark grayish, red-brown color. 4. Obs. any rounded red gem. adj. 5. having the color carbuncle. [1150-1200; ME < AF < L carbunculus kind of precious stone, tumor, lit., live coal, equiv. to carbon- (s. of carbo) burning charcoal + -culus -CULE1, appar. assimilated to derivates from short-vowel stems; cf. HOMUNCULUS] |
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