carunculated

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having one or more caruncles, especially fleshy growths on the head or neck of a bird

   The carrier pigeon has conspicuously carunculated skin around its beak and eyes.

From caruncle plus -ated, after New Latin carunculatus. Caruncle comes from Latin caruncula ("small piece of flesh"), a diminutive of caro ("flesh"). Zoology uses the adjective for an animal bearing fleshy protuberances.

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