Caruncles

Much of this is covered in "caruncles," which superficially resemble warty outgrowths. ❋ Unknown (1991)

His caruncles at the base of his neck can turn such a vivid red that they look artificial. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His caruncles were candied apple red and had a sky blue section on his head and a bright white head crown. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It figures that the caruncles, snood and wattle have evolved as display structures. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Male turkeys - called stags - famously display a distensible frontal process, or snood, fleshy polyp-like lumps called caruncles, and a dewlap that extends from the lower jaw to the neck. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

But the whole bone of the head, with the exception of a small portion of the uppermost and lowermost portions of it, is like a sponge; and the bone has in it many juicy substances, like caruncles; and if one will rub them with the fingers, some blood will issue from them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[In Latin, _carunculæ myrtiformes_, which means in English myrtleberry-shaped caruncles; caruncle is a small fleshy elevation; derived from _caro_, which in Latin means flesh.] ❋ William J. Robinson (N/A)

The remains of the hymen after it is ruptured shrink and form little elevations which can be easily felt; they are known as caruncles. ❋ William J. Robinson (N/A)

Sonnini says that in a girl of eight he saw one of these caruncles which was 1/2 inch long, and another on a woman of twenty which was four inches long, and remarks that they seem peculiar only to women of distinct Egyptian origin. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Their heads are light blue or gray and their caruncles a faint red or pink similar to a normally colored turkey. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The bill is orange and black, the caruncles on his forehead orange, and the cere orange; the orbits scarlet, and the irides white. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

I have believed this pain to originate from sympathy with some distant part, as from ascarides in the rectum, or from piles in women; or from caruncles in the urethra about the caput gallinaginis in men; and that the pain has been in the glans or clitoris by reverse sympathy of these more sensible parts with those above mentioned. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Also, free-ranging, feral flocks of muscovy ducks, those black-and-white ducks with the warty caruncles between their eye and bill, have established themselves in East Texas and occasionally decoy to very surprised hunters, Kraai said. ❋ Unknown (2010)