caruncle

noun

1. Botany. a protuberance at or surrounding the hilum of a seed.
2. Zoology. a fleshy excrescence, as on the head of a bird; a fowl’s comb.
3. Anatomy. a small, fleshy growth.

noun

1. a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock’s comb
2. an outgrowth near the hilum on the seeds of some plants
3. any small fleshy mass in or on the body, either natural or abnormal

n.

1. A fleshy, naked outgrowth.