Meaning & use
Cicatrice
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A scar left after a wound or sore has healed.
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A faint cicatrice ran along his forearm from the old injury.
Botanists noted the cicatrice on the stem where a leaf had once been attached.
A note on using this word
A more literary or scientific alternative to 'scar'; in botany it refers to the mark left on a stem after a leaf falls.
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