Maculation \Mac"u*la"tion\, n. [L. maculatio.]
The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish; a macula. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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