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Blackhead

//ˈblæk.hɛd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of 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. countable

    "See there! A son is born And we pronounce him fit to fight There are blackheads on his shoulders And he pees himself in the night."

  2. 2
    a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin wordnet
  3. 3
    A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head. uncountable
  4. 4
    A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya. countable

Etymology

From black + head.

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