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Meaning of comedo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈkɒmədəʊ/

Definitions

A clogged hair follicle in the skin, formed when keratin combines with oil to block the follicle.

Equivalents

Deutsch Komedo Mitesser
Ελληνικά φαγέσωρας
Español comedón espinilla
Suomi Mustapää
Français comédon
Italiano comedone
Nederlands mee-eter
Svenska pormask
Українська вугор

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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