port-wine stain

1. 1.

   a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple

   Synonymsnevus flammeus

   Broaderbirthmark

Questions about port-wine stain

What does port-wine stain mean?

port-wine stain means "a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple".

What is another word for port-wine stain?

Close synonyms include nevus flammeus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is port-wine stain a common word?

port-wine stain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.