- spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation - 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"
--1 is a kind of marking
--1 has particulars:speck, pinpoint; nebula; worn spot, fret; plaque; macule, macula Derived form: verb dapple1