单词 | caruncle |
释义 | carunclen. 1. A small fleshy excrescence: applied in Anatomy to certain natural formations, as the lachrymal and urethral caruncles, the wattles of the turkey-cock, etc. In Pathology formerly applied to a stricture. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > protuberance > [noun] caruncle1615 ridge1684 nipple1706 monticule1874 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] > rounded projection boss1386 ball1530 tubercle1556 tubercule1596 tuberculum1597 tuberosity1611 caruncle1615 papilla1671 bulb1716 tuber1741 mammula1815 mamilla1818 tuberculation1820 verruca1822 monticule1874 miliary1880 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] carnosity1559 outwaxing1562 mandrake1568 excrescence1578 sarcome1626 excrescency1641 glandule1656 sarcoma1657 superexcrescence1676 caruncle1722 wart1774 clavus1842 growth1849 adenoid1855 neoplasm1863 neoplasma1876 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 143 Caruncles or teats, with very fine perforations..opening into the..pipes of the Vreters. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B7 A caruncle like a tongue. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 306/1 The Caruncles [are] knotty pieces of flesh, hanging about the Bill..as in Turky-cocks. 1722 W. Becket in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 51 A Caruncle in the Urethra. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xvii. 272 At the inner corner of the eye..stands a caruncle. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xii. 13 The fleshy caruncles on the heads of certain birds. 2. Botany. ‘An excrescence at or about the hilum of certain seeds’ (Gray). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > hilum or cicatrix hilum1753 cicatrix1826 cicatricula1828 caruncle1830 omphalodium1832 strophiole1839 omphalode1850 nucleus1861 wound stump1923 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 144 Having a remarkable tumour, called a caruncula, at one end of the seeds. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 328 Cuticle brown, caruncle large. Derivatives caruncled adj. = carunculate adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] > of parts > of or relating to hilum and related parts strophiolate1821 carunculate1835 hilar1864 trihilate1866 caruncled1870 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 366 Seeds caruncled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1615 |
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