Caruncle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 231 anagrams from letters in caruncle (accelnru).
1605-15; earlier caruncula Latin: small piece of flesh, diminutive of carō (genitive carnis) flesh; for suffix, see carbuncle
The role of the caruncle in opening the shell seems to vary among different species of turtles.
Almost every caruncle present after 50 days could be flicked off easily with a probe or fingernail.
Retraction of the caruncle is best avoided by closing the conjunctival wound with a stitch, and thus pulling the caruncle forward.
The caruncle remains on the beak for a variable length of time, but never is present in the spring following hatching.
Did you ever hear of the caruncle on the head of the turkey?
The latter operation consists in excising a wedge-shaped piece of the posterior wall of the urethra containing the caruncle.
caruncle, kar-unk′l, n. a small fleshy excrescence, as the wattles of the turkey-cock.
The seeds cannot be carried so well unless this ridge, caruncle, be present.
Below A is seen a small conical elevation, with black dots (the lacrymal papilla or caruncle).
caruncle: a soft, naked, fleshy excrescence or protuberance.
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