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Definitions for Carbuncle
[1] Pathology . a painful circumscribed inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, resulting in suppuration and sloughing, and having a tendency to spread somewhat like a boil, but more serious in its effects.
[2] a gemstone, especially a garnet, cut with a convex back and a cabochon surface.
[3] Also called London brown. a dark grayish, red-brown color.
[4] Obsolete . any rounded red gem.
[5] having the color carbuncle.
[6] an extensive skin eruption, similar to but larger than a boil, with several openings: caused by staphylococcal infection
[7] a rounded gemstone, esp a garnet cut without facets
[8] a dark reddish-greyish-brown colour
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Words nearby Carbuncle
carboxyltransferase, carboxymethylcellulose, carboxypeptidase, carboy, carbro process, carbuncle, carbuncled, carbuncular, carbunculosis, carburate, carburation
Origin of Carbuncle
1150–1200; Middle English < Anglo-French < Latin carbunculus kind of precious stone, tumor, literally, live coal, equivalent to carbōn- (stem of carbō ) burning charcoal + -culus -cule1, apparently assimilated to derivates from short-vowel stems; cf. homunculus
Other words from Carbuncle
car•bun′ cu•lar (-kyə-lər ) adj.
Word origin for Carbuncle
C13: from Latin carbunculus diminutive of carbō coal