pocked, pockmarked
(adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease
pocked, pockmarked, potholed
(adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pocked
simple past tense and past participle of pock
pocked (comparative more pocked, superlative most pocked)
pockmarked
Source: Wiktionary
Pock, n. Etym: [OE. pokke, AS. pocc, poc; akin to D. pok, G. pocke, and perh. to E. poke a pocket. Cf. Pox.] (Med.)
Definition: A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases. Of pokkes and of scab every sore. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
