carbuncle

Meaning of carbuncle

noun
  1. A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
  2. A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
  3. An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by bacterial infection.
  4. An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.

Information about carbuncle

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of carbuncle is: carbuncles.
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Hyphenation of carbuncle

car-bun-cle

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • carbuncle is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of carbuncle

Words that rhyme with carbuncle

ancle, incle, oncle, Uncle, caruncle, endosiphuncle, escarbuncle, furuncle, granduncle, homuncle, nuncle, peduncle, prepeduncle, pseudonymuncle, ratiuncle, sectiuncle, sermuncle, siphuncle, stepuncle, subpeduncle, uncle, vibratiuncle

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