caruncle
pronunciation
How to pronounce caruncle in British English:
UK ['kærʌŋkl]
How to pronounce caruncle in American English:
US ['kærʌŋkəl]
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- Noun:
- an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds
Word Origin
Example
- 1. The pathology of sexual cartilage caruncle is changed all round .
- 2. The personnel that contacts benzene or radiation is easy produce leukaemia , chloric ethylene producer is easy produce liver blood-vessel caruncle and liver cancer .
- 3. Seeds glossy black-brown or black , subglobose or oblate , orbicular-reniform , tuberculate or ribbed , with pale caruncle .