fingermark
Britishnoun
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“When, for example, a person touches an object, a fingermark will be left behind,” he explained, via email.
From Fox News
But even then, a fingermark gives no investigative lead whatsoever if the suspect is not on the fingerprint database.
From Scientific American
“The English suffer from phobias. If something happens to Russians, they immediately seek Russian fingermarks,” he told Interfax.
From The Guardian
But either will do, really, in a football-genius photo finish that not even Fifa, oleaginously possessive as ever, can stain with its grubby fingermarks.
From The Guardian
A fingermark contains not only a pattern of ridges, but also material from the skin surface and human gland secretions.
From BBC
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