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What is the noun for scabs?

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scab
  1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  2. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
  3. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
  4. Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
  5. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
  6. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
  7. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
  8. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  9. (offensive) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “After the burn on his finger, a scab formed and gradually fell off as his skin healed.”
scabbiness
  1. The property of being scabby, of having or being covered with scabs.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To control apple scab infection, rake up leaves that look diseased and prune out shoots showing signs of scabbiness.”
scabbedness
  1. Quality of being scabby; presence of scabs.
scabs
  1. plural of scab
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His wrinkly old skin held pockmarks and warts and scabs, and he had a large crooked nose.”
      “There were scabs, but where the skin had been angry red, it was now a more healthy shade of pink.”
      “The poor thing is allergic to flea bites, and has the most awful scabs around his back legs and tail area.”
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