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maculation

NOUN
  1. a small contrasting part of something
    a leopard's spots
    a patch of clouds
    a fleck of red
    patches of thin ice
    a bald spot
  2. the act of spotting or staining something

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  • The _Pompilidæ_ are species of great beauty, some closely resembling those of Australia in the banding and maculation of their wings; amongst the _Vespidæ_ will be found some of the most elegant and beautiful forms in the whole of that protean family of Hymenoptera. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Nantes-based artist Jackie Dumonteil has designed a blue and white spray-paint maculation of the inner, corrugated surface.
  • That same night word was sent his master, and the rising practitioner, shaken up from where he lay, all innocence, before the fire, was had out to a dykeside and promptly shot; for alas! he was that foulest of criminals under trust, a sheep-eater; and it was from the maculation of sheep’s blood that he had come so far to cleanse himself in the pool behind Kirk Yetton. Memories and Portraits
  • Panorpatae: = Mecoptera; q.v. Pantherine: in color, almost like cervinus; q.v.: in maculation, like those of a panther. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • An old blanket-coat, or wrap-rascal, once white, but now of the same muddy brown hue that stained his visage -- and once also of sufficient length to defend his legs, though the skirts had long since been transferred to the cuffs and elbows, where they appeared in huge patches -- covered the upper part of his body; while the lower boasted a pair of buckskin breeches and leather wrappers, somewhat its junior in age, but its rival in mud and maculation. Nick of the Woods
  • Objects were painted to either simulate the color and maculation of Brownheaded Cowbirds eggs (i.e., off-white background with brown speckles [see Harrison 1978) or they were painted immaculate white.
  • Meticulose - us: is a maculation in the form of a series of colored flames. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • With that he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the least maculation, giving his commands in an unobtrusive, dinner-table tone of voice, and sweeping neatly enough alongside the schooner. The Wrecker
  • The tiger beetles within the Amargosa River drainage are notable in their extreme reduction in maculation (spots and markings).
  • The idea that solar maculation depends in some way upon the position of the planets occurred to Galileo in 1612. [ A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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