Caruncula

1. n. A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.
2. n. A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
3. n. An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.