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strawberry mark

noun

  1. a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.


strawberry mark

noun

  1. a soft raised swelling on the skin, often red, appearing in the weeks after birth. Most will shrink and disappear without treatment Technical namehaemangioma simplex Also calledstrawberry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of strawberry mark1

First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences

If you're born there people never forget it; it sticks to you like a strawberry mark on the end of your nose.

I am like the hero of a novel—a mysterious orphan—only, unfortunately, with no identifying strawberry-mark on my arm.

I am only sorry I did not discover the strawberry mark on your left arm earlier, that I might the sooner have subscribed myself.

He likewise confesses to the usual strawberry-mark in fast colors.

At this the stranger opened his valise and took therefrom a large-sized strawberry mark, which he placed on his right arm.

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