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Carious vs Carnous - What's the difference?

carious | carnous |

As adjectives the difference between carious and carnous

is that carious is having caries; decayed while carnous is fleshy.

carious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having caries; decayed.
  • *
  • * 1840 William Percivall, Hippopathology: a treatise on the disorders and lameness of the horse
    • My father's museum contained several preparations of carious teeth.

    carnous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare, or, obsolete) Fleshy.
  • * 1658': It is no impossible Physiognomy to conjecture at fleshy appendencies; and after what shape the muscles and '''carnous parts might hang in their full consistences. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 31)