carbuncular
IPA: kɑrbˈʌŋkjʌɫɝ
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a carbuncle.
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Examples of "carbuncular" in Sentences
- The kinds of pitsand are these: black, gray, red, and carbuncular.
- The organ is much shrunken and presents rough, uneven edges, with carbuncular non-suppurative sores.
- In coarse grained gravel and carbuncular sand the supply is surer and more lasting, and it has a good taste.
- Consequently, while in Campania the burning of the earth makes ashes, in Tuscany the combustion of the stone makes carbuncular sand.
- Also maybe there is someone who is equivalent to La Toynbe in general smugness, what about the vile carbuncular growth that is Balls?
- Four hundred years ago you landed in the Tropic of Capricorn on the carbuncular plank of ships steered by dark stars the pale beetle of the seas
- Just as Mr. Eugenides is not a Phoenician sailor, and Tiresias is not a young man carbuncular, so also the Lady of Ash Wednesday II is not the "veiled sister" of section V.
- Beside us were ornery women in tall hats, suspender dads, kids deformed with ribbons, rural Lotharios, tattooed grandmas, livestock lawyers, reverse cowboys, and young men carbuncular.
- The Tuscan stone is softer in quality than tufa but harder than earth, and being thoroughly kindled by the violent heat from below, the result is the production in some places of the kind of sand called carbuncular.
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