whitehead noun5 •A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom. •The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens. •The surf scoter duck. •A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla). •A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk. formswhiteheads