carbuncle 的 2 个定义
- Pathology. a painful circumscribed inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, resulting in suppuration and sloughing, and having a tendency to spread somewhat like a boil, but more serious in its effects.
- a gemstone, especially a garnet, cut with a convex back and a cabochon surface.
- Also called London brown. a dark grayish, red-brown color.
- Obsolete. any rounded red gem.
- having the color carbuncle.
carbuncle 近义词
abscess
更多carbuncle例句
- But he had hard luck, too, for another carbuncle developed at Melbourne and kept him laid up for nearly a week.
- It was the flash of the great carbuncle, and the stars seen through it were as if dyed in blood.
- The sun struck it, and made the engraved carbuncle shine dully red.
- It happened that Mre Jupillon had trouble with her leg—a carbuncle that prevented her from walking for nearly eighteen months.
- This story of the carbuncle reminds us of Hawthorne's story on the same subject.