different between furuncle vs furuncular

English

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin f?runculus (“a petty thief, pilferer; a pointed burning sore, boil”), diminutive of f?r (“a thief”).

furuncle (plural furuncles)

“furuncle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
“furuncle”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

From Latin furunculus +? -ar.

furuncular (comparative more furuncular, superlative most furuncular)

(rare) Pertaining to furuncles or boils.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 88:
  He remembered the inspector's pipe studded with Bohemian gems (in harmony with its owner's furuncular nose) and also the habit Armande had of exchanging ribald comments in Swiss-German with the old fellow while he was examining the rubbish under a cracked seat.

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