The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carious \Ca"ri*ous\, a. [L. cariosus, fr. caries dacay.] Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from French carieux (16c.), from Latin cariosus "full of decay," from caries "rottenness, decay" (see caries).
Wiktionary
a. Having caries; decayed.
WordNet
adj. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay
Usage examples of "carious".
Do not report submaxillary enlargement in recurrent tonsilitis or carious teeth or post-cervical enlargement in pediculosis capitis, or in impetigo or eczema of the scalp.
Now she was a convenience and an ornament, a showcase for his wealth and aesthetics, like the carious grandeur of the house.
She went around the cliffs, under the old tower, and he decided she would be going to the bluff beyond, which at low tide is set back from the sea, and crumbling, full of galleries and carious chambers, unsafe and unvisited.
Now more carious than afraid, Klesst decided she must see what had happened.
His face and thick muscular arms were speckled with blood thrown from the wounds he had inflicted on his victims, and his mouth was wide open as he laughed ferociously, showing his carious teeth.
A guard in a uniform of human skin, black buck jacket with carious yellow teeth buttons, an elastic pullover shirt in burnished Indian copper, adolescentnordic-sun-tan slacks, sandals from calloused foot soles of young Malayan farmer, an ash-brown scarf knotted and tucked in the shirt.