caricous
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin carica (“a kind of dry fig”) + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]caricous (comparative more caricous, superlative most caricous)
- Shaped like a fig.
- 1868, North American Journal of Homoeopathy, volume 16, page 74:
- The hypertrophic condylomata are either caricous, scolloped or jointy.
References
[edit]- “caricous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.