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liturate

liturate adjective: being or having indistinct spots, paler at the margins.

Adjective

liturate (comparative more liturate, superlative most liturate)

  1. Being or having indistinct spots, paler at the margins.
    • liturate thorax
    • [describing a moth, Megachyta lituralis, now Zanclognatha lituralis]Two black liturate spots on costa at inception1873, American Entomological Society, “Transactions of the American Entomological Society”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  2. Spotted, as if from abrasions of the surface.

Forms of liturate

comparativemore liturate
superlativemost liturate

Origin of liturate

First attested in 1826; Latin litūrātus, perfect passive participle and participial adjective from litūrō (“to erase”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from litūra (“a blur”).

Questions about liturate

What does liturate mean?
Liturate means being or having indistinct spots, paler at the margins.
What part of speech is liturate?
Liturate is an adjective.

Words near liturate in the dictionary

  1. litupa
  2. litupas
  3. litura
  4. liturae
  5. liturally
  6. liturate
  7. liturge
  8. liturges
  9. liturgic
  10. liturgical
  11. Liturgical Armenian

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