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blackhead

English

Etymology

black + head

Noun

blackhead (countable and uncountable, plural blackheads)

  1. (countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
  2. (uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
  3. (countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.

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  • blackhead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Blackhead in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

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whiteheads

English

Noun

whiteheads

  1. plural of whitehead

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