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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A skin lesion consisting of a hair follicle that is occluded with sebum and keratin, appearing white at the surface.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small and rare oscinine bird, Clitonyx albicilla, peculiar to the North Island, New Zealand, and threatened with extinction.
  • noun The white-headed scoter or surf-scoter, a duck, Œdemia perspicillata. See cut under Pelionetta.
  • noun A breed of domestic pigeons with the head and tail white; a white-tailed monk.
  • noun The blue wavey. or blue-winged snow-goose, Chen cærulescens. See goose.
  • noun The broom-bush, Parthenium Hysterophorus. Also called bastard feverfew and West Indian mugwort.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The blue-winged snow goose.
  • noun The surf scoter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A pimple formed by a clogged sebaceous gland, usually with a milky-white cap.
  • noun The blue-winged snow goose.
  • noun The surf scoter.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
  • noun a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland

Etymologies

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white +‎ head

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