Usually means: Small, fleshy growth on skin.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word caruncle:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. caruncle: Merriam-Webster
  2. caruncle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caruncle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caruncle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caruncle: Vocabulary.com
  6. caruncle: Wordnik
  7. caruncle: Wiktionary
  8. caruncle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. caruncle: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. caruncle: Dictionary.com
  11. Caruncle (bird anatomy), Caruncle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Caruncle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. caruncle: Rhymezone
  14. Caruncle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. caruncle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. caruncle: FreeDictionary.org
  17. caruncle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. caruncle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. caruncle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caruncle: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caruncle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. caruncle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. caruncle: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Caruncle: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caruncle)

noun:  (anatomy, zootomy) A small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy.
noun:  (botany) A colored waxy or oily outgrowth near the micropyle of some seeds, attractive to ants which aid the seed's dispersal.
noun:  (anatomy) Clipping of lacrimal caruncle: the red prominence at the inner corner of the eye. [(anatomy) A small globular nodule at the inner corner of the eye that covers sebaceous and sudoriferous glands.]

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