strawberry mark

American  

noun

1. a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.

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strawberry mark British  

noun

1. Also called: strawberry.  Technical name: haemangioma simplex.  a soft raised swelling on the skin, often red, appearing in the weeks after birth. Most will shrink and disappear without treatment

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Etymology

Origin of strawberry mark

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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strawberry mark

The bartender touched the strawberry mark with his fingers.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

He had a strawberry mark on his forehead.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Another mole the size of a farthing on her thigh and something purplish on her calf—a strawberry mark, a scar.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

He skips out somewhere, and when they find him he pretends to have lost his memory—don't know his own name, and won't even recognize the strawberry mark on his wife's left shoulder.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry

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

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 by Various