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Webster 1913 Edition
Caruncula
{
Car′un-cle
, ‖Ca-run′cu-la
, }Noun.
[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.
(Zool.)
A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.