caruncle
Meaning of caruncle
noun
- a wattle of a bird such as a turkeycock.
- the red prominence at the inner corner of the eye.
- a coloured waxy or oily outgrowth from a seed near the micropyle, attractive to ants which aid the seed's dispersal.
late 16th century: obsolete French, from Latin caruncula, from caro, carn- ‘flesh’.
Information about caruncle
- It is a name.
- The plural form of caruncle is: caruncles.
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Hyphenation of caruncle
carun-cle
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- caruncle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
caruncle synonyms
Meaning caruncula:
Translation of caruncle
Words that rhyme with caruncle
ancle, incle, oncle, Uncle, carbuncle, endosiphuncle, escarbuncle, furuncle, granduncle, homuncle, nuncle, peduncle, prepeduncle, pseudonymuncle, ratiuncle, sectiuncle, sermuncle, siphuncle, stepuncle, subpeduncle, uncle, vibratiuncle
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