carbuncle
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Is carbuncle a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of carbuncle?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.Examples: "With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus […]"; "And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones."; "His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; […]"archaic
2. (heraldry) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
3. (pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
Definition source: Wiktionary