Definitions for carbuncle

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carbuncle car·bun·cle

Spelling: [kahr-buhng-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈkɑr bʌŋ kəl/

Carbuncle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 366 anagrams from letters in carbuncle (abccelnru).

Definitions for carbuncle

noun

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.

adjective

1. having the color carbuncle.

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 Examples for carbuncle

Tsian Tang brought out a platter of red amber on which lay a carbuncle.

The carbuncle is by no means an invariable accompaniment of the disease.

She wore on her head a lotos-flower, and on her breast a carbuncle.

Baron Colditz, the Chancellor, fell ill of a carbuncle in his foot, and died.

The carbuncle of the Dung-Beetle of the Pampas suggested the question.

The second row contained a carbuncle, a jasper, and a sapphire.

Page 167, line 67, and seq.—'carbuncle and Balas ruby,' etc.

The carbuncle is red, and surpasses the wonders of all other stones.

And there were moments in which she almost resolved to tell her secret to Mrs. carbuncle.

It appears to be the same called carbuncle Mountain on the map.