Car"un*cle (?), Ca*run"cu*la (?), n. [L. caruncula a little piece of flesh, dim. of caro flesh.]
1. Anat.
A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
2. Bot.
An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.
3. Zool.
A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.
© Webster 1913.