- a painful circumscribed inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, resulting in suppuration and sloughing, and having a tendency to spread somewhat like a boil, but more serious in its effects.
- a gemstone, especially a garnet, cut with a convex back and a cabochon surface.
- a dark grayish, red-brown color.
- any rounded red gem.
- having the color carbuncle.
- an extensive skin eruption, similar to but larger than a boil, with several openings: caused by staphylococcal infection
- a rounded gemstone, esp a garnet cut without facets
- a dark reddish-greyish-brown colour
