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mole, wart

Sasha Ivanov

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Russian
Please, help me with what native speakers call these things, with the non-scientific terminology.
1) brown, small to medium specks on your skin, there can be one, there can be very many. They usually don't protrude, but there are instances when this speck, which at a younger age looked very sensual, above your upper lip, it starts to grow and protrude and ends up as a brown ball of any size, with hairs sticking out of it. I google translated it it it says, nevus, moles, birthmarks, beauty marks.
2) they are the grown version of the first thing, or they are from birth very round and protruding, happen in any place on the body, frequently on the nose. We call them warts.
3) these, I'm not interested in, they are bigger areas of skin pigmentation, not protruding, happen anywhere on the body. My dictionary says: birthmarks. But my American friend told me the 1) thing can easily be called a birthmark. So, there's confusion.
I would like to know the specific names, as in Russian. I wouldn't call a tiny cute sexy mole on your lip a birthmark (in Russian). In Russian a birthmark must have at least the area of a coin.
Second, in an American movie I saw an actor with a huge brown ball, with hair sticking out of it. And people called it "a mole!". So, as I understand it, you don't call them warts, you call them "moles". So you call both a little sexy dot, and a gross growth with hairs, "a mole"?
If somebody said, "She has such a sensual mole on her lip", how can I be sure it is not a wart?
So, as I understand it, you don't call them warts, you call them "moles". So you call both a little sexy dot, and a gross growth with hairs, "a mole"?
Yes. If it is a brown spot that is darker than the surrounding skin, I will call it a mole if it isn't a freckle. People sometimes use the term beauty mark in their references to the sexy little dot that you mentioned.

I use birthmark in references to purplish splotches on the skin.
Isn't it confusing? She has such a sensual mole on her lip. How can I be 100% sure, that he doesn't have his own definition of "sensual", and is not talking about a hairy ball of flesh, the size of a marble, hanging on a thin stem above her upper lip?
If somebody said, "She has such a sensual mole on her lip", how can I be sure it is not a wart?

How can I be 100% sure, that he doesn't have his own definition of "sensual", and is not talking about a hairy ball, the size of a marble, of flesh hanging on a thin stem above her upper lip?
I don't think that I have ever heard anybody referring to a sensual mole before, but perhaps you have. I definitely have not heard anybody refer to a wart as a mole. If you need to distinguish between warts and moles, you might consider searching Google Images or some other source for pictures of moles and warts.

To get you started, here is a link to a collection of pictures of moles: Normal moles pictures library
As far as I can tell, yes. One is a very large mole. The other is a tiny mole. Adjectives should suffice if you need to distinguish between moles of different sizes.
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