maculate


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Synonyms for maculate

make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air

spot, stain, or pollute

morally blemished

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spotted or blotched

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It cannot be accidental that the speaker sees the "peacock-living patina, / eye-bright, maculate!" and then finds the bone-like reality of the bird.
Hemelytra: medium brown complexly maculate with reddish brown and dark yellow, costal vein flecked with small black dashes, wing membrane dark brown, with prominent reticulate venation, hemelytral apices not reaching posterior margin of abdominal tergite VI; dorsal prothorax and hemelytra bearing scattered short, stout, erect, pale setae.
Same, median body segments showing the maculate pattern.
Neyland & Hennigan 1954 Tribe Pyroleae Chimaphila maculate (L.) Porsh Neyland 2049 Moneses uniflora (L.) Gray Neyland 2079 Tribe Pterosporeae Pterospora andromedea Nutt.
Conception of pure / impure and maculate / immaculate comes to mind and the woman's body turns into a dubious object, wavering between existence and dissimulation.
MANCHESTER: nnovative and terested, from maculate suits to sidered layering.
Hacker can occasionally seem a bit arch, as in this aside: (Over the ranch / in Texas what smoke rises in premon-/ itory pillar?) She also has a bag of favorite words which recur through her oeuvre--polyglot, maculate, divagations, exigent, prelapsarian, chinoiserie.
Chapter 7 takes up the ubiquitous obscenity of Aristophanes, a major field of study ever since the appearance of Jeffrey Henderson's The Maculate Muse in 1975.
Genital shield of female linguliform, bear deep maculate ornamentation.
The bright coloration of the Heterosternuta (i.e., maculate dorsal surface with alternating dark and bright transverse, irregular bands) has been considered to correspond to the typical occurrence of this genus in spaces among rocks in unvegetated mineral substrate (Larson et al., 2000), with the alternating colors potentially providing a degree of protection from predators.
The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to maculate giraffe.
"The governing body of Mary Im maculate have identified a specific body consisting of governors and other parties to assist us in dealing with this proposal."
The Spotted Green Pigeon (Caloenas maculate) has been affectionately named after the city where it has been stored for the past century.