pockmark
nounUK /ˈpɒk.mɑːk/ · US /ˈpɑkˌmɑɹk/
Etymology From pock + mark.
1
A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
- When we were quite well and tolerably free from pock-marks [from smallpox], my father took us to London with him, […]1883, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “Whitehall before the Cobwebs”, in Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4:
2
A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.
- Derived terms
- pockmarked