pinhead
suomi-englanti sanakirjapinhead englannista suomeksi
nuppineulan pää
ääliö, pölkkypää
Substantiivi
pinhead englanniksi
1810, Thomas Thomson, ''A System of Chemistry, Vol. 4'', Bell & Bradfute, page 602:
- The moment the nitre was red hot, the coal, previously reduced to small pieces of the size of a pinhead, was projected in portions of one or two grains at a time…
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A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in show|freak shows as "human pinheads".
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The immature juvenile fruiting body of a mushroom prior to its gills opening.