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comedo

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒmədəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted cdemooStarts with CEnds with O0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin

Word origin

From Latin comedō (“glutton”). Applied to blackheads on account of the popular belief that they were parasitic worms that consumed the host’s nutrients, especially in children, thereby causing weight loss and illness. Compare Danish hudorm (“comedo”, literally “skin-worm”).

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  • Lying on, in, under her, I pore with squinnying eyes on a mole on that browngold rivercolour riverripple skin with its smell of sun, or else a tiny unsqueezed comedo by the flat and splaying nose.

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