Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun caruncle

1 sense of caruncle

Sense 1
caruncle, caruncula -- (an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds)
       => process, outgrowth, appendage -- (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process")