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Webster 1913 Edition


Blackhead

Black′headˊ

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Noun.
(Zool.)
The scaup duck.

Definition 2024


blackhead

blackhead

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Noun

blackhead (plural blackheads)

  1. (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. A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
  3. A scaup: a kind of duck.

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