Usually means: Painful, pus-filled, skin infection cluster.
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  1. carbuncle: Merriam-Webster
  2. carbuncle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carbuncle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carbuncle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carbuncle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carbuncle, carbuncle: Wordnik
  7. carbuncle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. carbuncle: Wiktionary
  9. carbuncle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carbuncle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carbuncle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Carbuncle, carbuncle: Dictionary.com
  13. carbuncle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Carbuncle (disambiguation), Carbuncle (gemstone), Carbuncle (heraldry), Carbuncle (mythology), Carbuncle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Carbuncle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. carbuncle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. carbuncle: Rhymezone
  18. Carbuncle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. carbuncle: FreeDictionary.org
  20. carbuncle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. carbuncle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. carbuncle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. carbuncle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. carbuncle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. carbuncle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Carbuncle: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. carbuncle: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Carbuncle: Easton Bible
  2. Carbuncle: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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  1. Carbuncle: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carbuncle)

noun:  (archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
noun:  (heraldry) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
noun:  (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.
noun:  An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.

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