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whitehead

whitehead noun: a type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.

whitehead: a type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and...
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Noun (1)

whitehead (plural whiteheads)

  1. A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.
    • Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.
    • Ma was taking a sterilized needle to a whitehead on my chin.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 151
    Synonyms:
    closed comedo
  2. A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
  3. The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
  4. The surf scoter duck.
  5. A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.

Proper noun capitalized: Whitehead

Whitehead (countable and uncountable, plural Whiteheads)

  1. A surname.
  2. A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791).
  3. A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Whitehead.
  4. A community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  5. An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
  6. A township in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States.

Noun (2) capitalized: Whitehead

Whitehead (plural Whiteheads)

  1. A form of self-propelling torpedo.

whitehead meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati and Nepali

whitehead in Tamil

நீலச் சிறகுடைய பறவை வகை, வீட்டு வளர்ப்பினப் புறா வகை

whitehead in Urdu

دانا, مہاسا

whitehead in Gujarati

વ્હાઇટહેડ

whitehead in Nepali

ह्वाइटहेड

Synonyms of whitehead

Forms of whitehead

Noun
pluralwhiteheads
pluralWhiteheads
Proper noun
pluralWhiteheads

Plural of whitehead: whiteheads

Origin of whitehead

From white + head.

Words formed from whitehead

Phrases with whitehead

Questions about whitehead

What does whitehead mean?
Whitehead means a type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.
What is whitehead in Tamil?
Whitehead in Tamil is நீலச் சிறகுடைய பறவை வகை, வீட்டு வளர்ப்பினப் புறா வகை. See Whitehead meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is whitehead?
Whitehead can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of whitehead?
The plural of whitehead is whiteheads.

Words near whitehead in the dictionary

  1. whitehanded
  2. whitehat
  3. whitehats
  4. Whitehaven
  5. Whitehawk
  6. whitehead
  7. Whitehead link
  8. Whitehead links
  9. whiteheaded
  10. Whiteheadian
  11. Whiteheadians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whitehead (page history and authors); Whitehead (page history and authors); whitehead (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whitehead (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whitehead (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whitehead (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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