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seba

seba is the plural of sebum.

Meaning of sebum

Noun

sebum (countable and uncountable, plural sebums or seba)

  1. A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.
    • ‘I mean, it is not simply adolescent acne caused by the over-excretion of sebum.’2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 387

Origin of seba

From Latin sēba, plural of sēbum.

Questions about seba

What is seba the plural of?
Seba is the plural of sebum.

Words near seba in the dictionary

  1. seazes
  2. seazing
  3. seazure
  4. seazures
  5. SEB
  6. seba
  7. sebacate
  8. sebacates
  9. sebaceous
  10. sebaceous adenitis
  11. sebaceous cyst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seba (page history and authors); sebum (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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