birthmark
nounUS /ˈbɝθˌmɑɹk/
Etymology From birth + mark. Displaced earlier terms longing mark and mother's mark.
1
A mark on the skin formed before birth.
- facial birthmark
- large birthmark
3 more examples
- She has a small birthmark on her left shoulder.
- The detective identified him by a distinctive birthmark.
- The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed. Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120:
- Derived terms
- birthmarked