furuncular
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin furunculus + -ar.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
furuncular (comparative more furuncular, superlative most furuncular)
- (rare) Pertaining to furuncles or boils.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 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.