| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| furuncle |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fu·run·cle |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fy r  ng k l |
| NOUN: | See boil2. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin f runculus, knob on a vine that “steals” the sap, diminutive of fr, thief (modeled on latrunculus, robber, diminutive of latr , latrn-, bandit). See bher-1 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | fu·runcu·lar (fy-rngky-lr) , fu·runcu·lous (-ls) —ADJECTIVE
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