Usually means: Clogged pore with oxidized sebum.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. blackhead: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blackhead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blackhead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blackhead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blackhead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blackhead, blackhead: Wordnik
  7. blackhead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blackhead: Wiktionary
  9. blackhead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blackhead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blackhead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blackhead: Dictionary.com
  13. Blackhead (New York), Blackhead (New Zealand), Blackhead (disambiguation), Blackhead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Blackhead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. blackhead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. blackhead: Rhymezone
  17. Blackhead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. blackhead: Free Dictionary
  19. blackhead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. blackhead: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. blackhead: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Blackhead: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  6. blackhead: Medical dictionary
  7. Blackhead: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Blackhead (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. blackhead: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, 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.
noun:  (uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
noun:  (countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.

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