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Lentigo

//lɛnˈtaɪɡoʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A brown pigmented spot on the skin. countable, uncountable

    "[…] too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features […]"

  2. 2
    a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lentīgo. Earliest attestation as Late Middle English lentigines (plural).

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