maculation

Noun
Synonyms: spotspeckledapplepatchfleckstainingspotting

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  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”Synonyms: spotspeckledapplepatchfleck
  2. the act of spotting or staining somethingSynonyms: stainingspotting
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Maculation \Mac"u*la"tion\, n. [L. maculatio.] The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish; a macula. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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