Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable)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.

    Mitesser, Komedo

    комедо́нkomedón, у́горьúgorʹ

    вуго́рvuhór

  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.

More definitions
  • a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin

Examples

1 sentences
  1. I squeezed out a blackhead.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
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skin blemish:
Русский
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skin blemish:
Deutsch
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skin blemish:

Origin

substratebor.?

substratebor.?

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Forms

plural: blackheads
Singularblackhead
Pluralblackheads

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin:comedo

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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