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birthmark

nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈbɝθˌmɑɹk//

A mark on the skin formed before birth.

noun

  1. 1

    A mark on the skin formed before birth.

    facial birthmark

    large birthmark

    She has a small birthmark on her left shoulder.

    The detective identified him by a distinctive birthmark.

Etymology

From birth + mark. Displaced earlier terms longing mark and mother's mark.

Forms

plural
birthmarks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).