comedones
UK/ˌkɒmɪˈdəʊniːz/US/ˌkɑmɪˈdoʊniz/
comedones is the plural of comedo.
comedones is the plural of comedone.
Meaning of comedo
Noun
comedo (plural comedones or comedos)
- A clogged hair follicle in the skin, formed when keratin combines with oil to block the follicle.
- 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.1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun
Origin of comedones
Learned borrowing from Latin comedōnēs.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Phrases with comedones
Questions about comedones
- What is comedones the plural of?
- Comedones is the plural of comedo.
- How do you pronounce comedones?
- Comedones is pronounced /ˌkɑmɪˈdoʊniz/ (US).
Words near comedones in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: comedones (page history and authors); comedo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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