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noun an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds
originBorrowed from Middle French caruncule, from Latin caruncula (“a little piece of flesh”), diminutive of carō (“flesh”). Doublet of caruncula.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0