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scar

/skɑɹ/ noun C2
  1. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).

Plural scars

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“We had driven up in a dog-cart, and my client led me away at once, without our entering the house, to the scar on the lawn where the elm had stood.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 17 · B2
The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 22 · C1
“The first time, he broke my arm; the second, he wounded me in the breast; and the third time, made this large wound.” The Englishman turned down his shirt-collar, and showed a scar, whose redness proved it to be a recent one.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 719 · C1

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