From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Maculation \Mac"u*la"tion\, noun [L. maculatio.] The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish; a macula. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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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