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Whitehead

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A place name:; A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A place name:; A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Whitehead. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A place name:; A community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A place name:; An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A place name:; A township in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.

    "Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom."

  2. 2
    A form of self-propelling torpedo.
  3. 3
    a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin wordnet
  4. 4
    A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
  5. 5
    The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
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  1. 6
    The surf scoter duck.
  2. 7
    A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From white + head.

Etymology 2

From white + head.

Etymology 3

From white + head.

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