EGAVE

whitehead

About 2.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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. noun A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
  3. noun The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
  4. noun The surf scoter duck.
  5. noun A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.

Similar words

milium white roger rapporteur vaughan comedone comedo pimple zit acne

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Word family

Alfred North Whitehead Whitehead William Whitehead milium whiteheads

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