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Webster 1913 Edition


Furuncular

Fu-run′cu-lar

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Adj.
Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.

Definition 2024


furuncular

furuncular

English

Adjective

furuncular (comparative more furuncular, superlative most furuncular)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to furuncles or boils.
    • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 88:
      He remembered the inspector's pipe studded with Bohemian gems (in harmony with its owner's furuncular nose) and also the habit Armande had of exchanging ribald comments in Swiss-German with the old fellow while he was examining the rubbish under a cracked seat.