A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.
A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.
An appendage to a seed at the hilium.
diminutive of Latin caro = flesh, hence, a small fleshy elevation.
an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds
a small hard outgrowth formed on the seeds of certain plants , such as the castor oil plant
the fleshy protrusion at the medial canthus of the eye. In certain brachycephalic breeds, aberrant dermis on the caruncles may result in trichiasis
(= strophiole): an outgrowth of a seed coat, near the hilum.