Hypertext Webster Gateway: "maculation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maculation \Mac"u*la"tion\, n. [L. maculatio.]
The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
maculation
n 1: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a
leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin
ice": "a fleck of red" [syn: {spot}, {speckle}, {dapple},
{patch}, {fleck}]
2: the act of spotting or staining something [syn: {staining},
{spotting}]
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