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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Car·un·cle Ca·run·cu·la n.
 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.