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red spot
1. Astr. = great red spot s.v. great a. 20.
1879Monthly Notices R. Astron. Soc. XL. 86 The very remarkable red spot which has attracted the attention of every observer during the present opposition. 1962Listener 26 July 136/1 After 1882 the Red Spot began to fade, and since then it has undergone various changes. 1977Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 21/2 Neither is it true to say that with regard to the Red Spot on Jupiter, ‘scientists do not know what causes it’.
2. A defect of cheese in which there are fine red spots throughout.
[1900Bull. N.Y. Agric. Exper. Station No. 183. 189 The evidence seems to be conclusive that the red spots are produced by the growth of a minute plant which finds its way into the curd before it is put to press.] 1932Discovery Feb. 59/2 The trouble in cheese known as ‘open-ness’ is being investigated and red spot in cheese and oiliness in butter have been studied with some success. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 662 The peculiar fault known as ‘red spot’ in Cheddar cheese is due to an organism biochemically resembling the mastitis streptococcus which apparently lives a saprophytic existence in the udders of certain cows. |