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clown noses

clown noses is the plural of clown nose.

Meaning of clown nose

Noun

clown nose (plural clown noses)

  1. A fake nose, typically near spherical, bright red in color and sometimes capable of producing a honking sound when squeezed, commonly used by clowns and occasionally as a prop by people during parties.
  2. A reddish-brown cancerous bulge in the area of the tip of the nose.
    • Giacomo Colletti, Fabiana Allevi, Laura Moneghini, and Marina Palvarini (31 January 2014), “Clown nose: a case of disfiguring nodular squamous cell carcinoma of the face”, in Case Reports, volume 2014, →DOI, →PMID, page bcr2013200471: “The clown nose is characterised in the patient by a dome-shaped...

Questions about clown noses

What is clown noses the plural of?
Clown noses is the plural of clown nose.

Words near clown noses in the dictionary

  1. clown horn
  2. clown horns
  3. clown mantis shrimp
  4. clown mantis shrimps
  5. clown nose
  6. clown noses
  7. clown on
  8. clown prince
  9. clown princes
  10. clown princess
  11. clown princesses

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