birthmarks

plural of birthmark

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for birthmarks
Noun
  • The answers have to come fast and furious, as the moles keep rearing their ugly heads.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Yards with moles, mice, or other critters are especially tempting, triggering a canine's natural prey drive.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Gopher snakes tend to be tan-colored with large square brown blotches or saddles along their backs and smaller gray spots on their sides.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In certain places the canopy of tree crowns was so dense that only splotches of sunlight could penetrate it, and the understory of vegetation was negligible.
    Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Pasty, light-brown skin spotted with splotches of darker brown.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Birthmarks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birthmarks. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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