"bald spot" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bald spots [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bald spot (plural bald spots)
  1. An area on the head which, due to hair loss, has little or no hair. Categories (topical): Hair Synonyms: bald patch Translations (area on the head which has little or no hair): 禿斑 (Chinese Mandarin), 秃斑 (tūbān) (Chinese Mandarin), 秃了一块 (tūleyíkuài) [formal] (Chinese Mandarin), 地中海 (dìzhōnghǎi) [colloquial] (Chinese Mandarin), måne [common-gender] (Danish), kale plek (Dutch), kalju kohta (Finnish), kalju (Finnish), pälvi (Finnish), calvitie (French), calva [feminine] (Galician), Kahlstelle [feminine] (German), 볼드스팟 (boldeuseupat) (Korean), ќелавица (ḱelavica) [colloquial, feminine] (Macedonian), tiwha (Maori), måne [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), łysina [feminine] (Polish), área calva [feminine] (Portuguese), лы́сина (lýsina) [feminine] (Russian), пле́шь (pléšʹ) [feminine] (Russian), пле́шина (pléšina) [feminine] (Russian), пропле́шина (propléšina) [feminine] (Russian), о́зеро (ózero) [neuter] (Russian), calva [feminine] (Spanish), ли́сина (lýsyna) [feminine] (Ukrainian), голомо́зина (holomózyna) [feminine, humorous] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-bald_spot-en-noun-PhrRk-SD Disambiguation of Hair: 58 42 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 64 36 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 49 51 Disambiguation of 'area on the head which has little or no hair': 95 5
  2. An area where a covering layer is absent; for example, a place where there is a break in the forest covering an area, or where snow has melted.
    Sense id: en-bald_spot-en-noun-j5XQ9uCY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 49 51

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