"maculation" meaning in English

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "solar maculation"
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    {
      "form": "maculations",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "immaculate"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Holy Terror” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, p. 218,\nHe could make out a mottled pattern on the hollow cheeks—the maculations of decay."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish."
      ],
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        [
          "spot",
          "spot"
        ],
        [
          "blemish",
          "blemish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish."
      ],
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    },
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            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, William H. Howe, editor, The Butterflies of North America, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 217",
          "text": "Females [of the species Speyeria nokomis] are cream above with heavy black maculation accompanied by much dark suffusion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1990, Mason E. Hale, A Synopsis of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia (Vainio) Hale (Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 195,\n[This lichen] species […] is recognized by […] more or less distinct maculation on the upper surface, and pale brown lower surface."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pattern of spots."
      ],
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          "botany",
          "botany"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology, botany, chiefly uncountable) A pattern of spots."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "măk′yə-lā′shən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maculation"
}

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    "English lemmas",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "solar maculation"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maculations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "maculation (plural maculations)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "immaculate"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Holy Terror” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, p. 218,\nHe could make out a mottled pattern on the hollow cheeks—the maculations of decay."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "spot",
          "spot"
        ],
        [
          "blemish",
          "blemish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Botany",
        "en:Zoology"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, William H. Howe, editor, The Butterflies of North America, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 217",
          "text": "Females [of the species Speyeria nokomis] are cream above with heavy black maculation accompanied by much dark suffusion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1990, Mason E. Hale, A Synopsis of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia (Vainio) Hale (Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 195,\n[This lichen] species […] is recognized by […] more or less distinct maculation on the upper surface, and pale brown lower surface."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pattern of spots."
      ],
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          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "botany",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(zoology, botany, chiefly uncountable) A pattern of spots."
      ],
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        "zoology"
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      "enpr": "măk′yə-lā′shən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maculation"
}