spottedadj.n.
/ˈspɒtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈspɑdəd/ 1.
a. Marked or decorated with spots.
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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > dappled or spotted
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > spotted
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parded1806
guttular1811
naevose1847
pellucido-punctate1847
measly1849
notate1857
maculiferous1863
spot-skin1871
naevous1890
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1721 If of ðo spotted cumen, Ðo sulen him ben for hire numen.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 143 Þer er also wilde swyne,..dappeld and spotted, as it ware founez of daes.
a1475 (a1450) Tournam. of Tottenham (Harl.) (1930) l. 54 He schal haue..my spottyd sowe.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. vi. 32 [She was] cled into the spottit linx hyde.
1582 Will of James Bisse in F. Brown Abstr. Somerset Wills (1887) 1st Ser. 93 Let my son Thomas have the spotted coult.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvii. 237 Not any Lion can; Nor spotted Leopard; nor Bore.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Gespickelt laken, speckled or Spotted cloath.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 108 I pass the Wars that spotted Linx's make With their fierce Rivals. View more context for this quotation
1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 87 This sort is spotted and purple.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln vii. 148 Best eating potatoes are spotted lemons.
1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) iii. 121 The domestic animals are sheep spotted black and white.
1854 Poultry Chron. 2 176 Their spotted plumage resembling the spotted markings on the neck and breast of a common cock pheasant.
1874 H. H. Cole Catal. Objects Indian Art S. Kensington Mus. 251 A very quaint flower pattern on a spotted white ground.
1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Jan. 1/3 She give me a spotted blouse of hers that she'd got sick of, just to cheer me up.
1931 Prairie Schooner 6 328 ‘Nice spotted hide,’ said Brother. ‘Ought to fetch a couple o' dollars.’
1986 T. McGuane To skin Cat (1989) 4 Barry..found Royce in a spotted bathrobe.
2013 New Yorker 6 May 28/2 A foul-tempered little beast with a gorgeous spotted coat.
b. Marked or decorated with some colour or substance which appears as spots; marked with a number of things scattered across an area or surface.
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1487 W. Caxton tr. J. Legrand Bk. Good Maners iv. v. sig. fvii Julia the doughter of Cezar seeyng the Robe of hir husbond spotted wyth blood.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. vii. f. 33v They were all paynted and spotted with sundry coloures.
1575 G. Gascoigne Short Obseruation Coursing with Greyhoundes in Noble Arte Venerie ii. 6 The beste houndes..are spotted with redde, the others whiche are marked or spotted with blacke or dunne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 440 A handkercher, Spotted with strawberries.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 187 Girafes..are docile beasts, white and spotted with red.
1709 W. Dampier Contin. Voy. New-Holland i. 32 Very remarkable Hills..; their sides all spotted with Woods and Savannahs.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 224 This animal..is finely spotted with various colours.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 189 Plumage of a clear brown, spotted with deeper colour.
1860 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 270 Four light-green eggs, spotted with brown.
1958 V. Nabokov Let. 2 May in Sel. Lett. (1989) 136 The nearer mountains are maroon, spotted with the dark green of junipers and the lighter green of mesquites.
1994 N. Holder Dead in Water i. 21 A sailor in filthy dungarees hung over the side, which was spotted with mint-green paint, Rust-Oleum, and rust proper.
2001 BBC Gardeners' World Feb. 37/3 Broad basal leaves that are dark green, generously spotted with pale grey, and glowing, sapphire-blue flowers.
c. With modifying adverb, as well, beautifully, lightly, delicately, etc.
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1560 tr. Albertus Magnus' Bk. Secretes sig. I.viii Take quycke syluer and ye poulder of Calamite, and put it in a bottel of glasse wel spotted, & put it with in a hote thing.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. f.126v A Leopardes skynne well spotted.
1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iv. 240 Marble beautifully spotted.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 237 No Lynx could be more exactly spotted, nor any Skin of a Tygre so pretty.
1732 London Evening Post 1 Feb. Two Brace of Does, of the India Kind, being finely Spotted, and all of them very big in Fawn.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 223 The skin..being rough, hard, and variously spotted.
1805 Morning Chron. 17 May 1/3 A small old dog spaniel, very infirm, with lion coloured ears, faintly spotted on the back,..breathes very hard, and snores when he sleeps.
1897 E. Arnold Wild Norway xi. 168 In colour the..trout were pale—light green, with silvery sides, and but lightly spotted.
1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 19/1 A huge thick-muscled cat with a curiously spotted coat, the most fearsome killer in the jungle—a jaguar!
1988 Jrnl. Mammalogy 69 628 I had observed her nursing a much smaller and clearly spotted fawn.
2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 June (Gardening section) 8 The pale pink species with distinctively spotted leaves familiar from grassy places throughout Britain.
d. Mining. Designating rock or workings containing ore distributed in scattered grains or patches, rather than occurring in massive or discrete deposits; designating ore distributed in this way.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [adjective] > having the ore irregularly distributed
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spotted1874
1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 365 The ground is spotted and very rich in places.
1895 Times 19 Feb. 3/6 This reef..appears to be what..is called ‘spotted’, the ore varying greatly in value in the distance of a few feet.
1928 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 798. 151 The ore occurs..as a disseminated ore, locally known as spotted ore or birdseye, in which grains of chromite are rather evenly disseminated through the serpentine.
1997 P. K. Banerjee & S. Ghosh Elem. Prospecting for Non-fuel Min. Deposits vii. 188 Special care is needed while sampling spotted ore or gold/tin-tungsten ores.
e. British. Preceded by lesser, or occasionally greater, with punning allusion to some animal and bird names (see Compounds 1): designating a person or thing regarded as a creature belonging to a particular habitat, esp. one thought of as rare or deserving of study. Cf. greater adj. 4c, lesser adj. 3a.Frequently as part of an extended metaphor.
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1982 Times 10 June 20 The warm weather has led to abbreviated golfwear and the first appearance of that Surrey rarity, the lesser spotted Peeping Tom.
1994 Face Sept. 103/1 Like bad taste twitchers, we'd point out every greater-spotted donkey jacket, red-breasted tank-top and spoon-billed loafer.
2000 Time Out 26 Jan. 70/3 No less strange a beast, the contemporary lesser-spotted Londoner gets the searchlight in dynamic young director Sion Rumley's engrossing debut ‘Strong Language’.
2010 A. Campbell Just get on with It 55 Have you ever..found yourself..getting upset by the plight of the lesser-spotted nearly extinct honest politician.
2. Disfigured or stained with spots.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > spotted
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a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deut. xii. 15 Sle thou, and ete, bi the blessyng of thi Lord..whether it is vnclene, that is, spottid [L. maculatum] ether wemmed and feble, ether clene.
1533 T. More 2nd Part Confut. Tyndals Answere viii. p. ccccxxxiii Syth that all ye iustyce of man is as the scrypture sayth lyke a fowle spotted clowte.
1619 R. West Schoole of Vertue: 2nd Pt. sig. B3 Keep it neat and cleane, For spotted, dirty, or the like, is lothsome to be seene.
1645 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer iii. 23 The Moon returns but a faint and spotted light upon the world.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses vi. 69 Your Cloths..(Which in the house sulli'd and spotted lie).
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 417 For every pound weight of Cocoons..of a weaker, lighter, spotted, or bruised quality.
1773 Art of tanning & currying Leather 18 Skins are taken out every day, and are immediately put in again, lest they be stained or spotted.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 91 With rust his armour bright was spotted o'er.
1899 Clinique 20 380 The clothing being all spotted, linen soiled and a generally untidy appearance of the person, who has generally before been extremely neat in all his habits.
1903 Smart Set 9 19/1 One spotted peach will contaminate a whole basket.
1966 K. L. Morgan in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 605/2 She would..pick out the spotted fruit that had been thrown in the garbage.
2004 New Yorker 19 Apr. 142/3 But for the Wodehousean the furred and spotted pages of Eric's collection reek, quite properly, of love.
3. figurative.
a. Morally stained or blemished with something disgraceful or defiling. Cf. spotless adj. 2b.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > polluted or defiled > characterized by moral blemishes
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [adjective] > stained or sullied
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?a1425 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Lamb. 472) (2000) ii. iv. l. 161 Thou feelist thisilf defouled and spotted with fleischli stirynges of this foule ymage.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 15 Thei fonde, their deth wher thei supposid to haue had their seurte and wente ther way spotted with vntrouth to ther perdicion.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxixv That note of infamie with the whiche his fame was iustely spotted and stayned.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 102 With no small negligence is he spotted in this point.
1615 P. Simson Short Compend Hist. First Ten Persecutions II. ii. 50 Emperour Theodosius..would not suffer Acholius to baptize him, vntill he was assured that Acholius was not spotted with the Airian Heresie.
a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xxx. 95 Seldome any such meetings, but are either sprinkled with blood, or spotted with some grosse filthinesse.
1718 Refl. Errors Doctr. Protestants & Papists 24 Godly Peter, tho' spotted with some foul Sins and Enormities.
1754 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 76 I have scarce an idea left that is not spotted with clubs, hearts, spades, and diamonds.
1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 2 The abuses, with which the regular system of procedure is spotted.
1894 Homiletic Rev. Aug. 99 Their many gods were spotted with sin; the best of them—Osiris—was not free from the defilement of the flesh.
1910 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Mar. 14/1 The district was spotted with ‘birth stain’. The ‘old hands’ formed almost a community of themselves.
1996 B. Sterling Holy Fire 231 The uncanny is beauty macchiato, darling, beauty just a little spotted—with the guilty, with the monstrous.
b. Morally stained or sullied; defiled, impure. Also as n.: (with the and plural agreement) morally stained people as a class. Cf. spotless adj. 2a. Now archaic.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > polluted or defiled
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > [adjective]
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a1535 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 83 The perilous pride of them that for theyr few spotted vertues..take themself for quick saintes.
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. i. f. 445v All creatures were founde spotted in the syght of God.
1637 R. Ashley tr. V. Malvezzi Davide Perseguitato 52 Always egged on by the bitter touches of their spotted beginning.
1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 67 Tho they are the most filthy and spotted Crimes.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 9 The Flow'rs of Eloquence profusely pour'd O'er spotted Vice, fill half the letter'd World.
1776 Congratulatory Poem Successes Brit. Arms 14 A friendly Lazar-house for spotted minds.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya Prel. i. 7 Do you press on, ye spotted parricides!
1891 H. Lynch G. Meredith 68 Richard's undertaking in the reform of spotted woman.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. vii. 132 The white he was ready to take for silver..the spotted had received corruption's label.
1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 22 A tarnished, a spotted soul.
1995 J. L. Matus Unstable Bodies iii. 126 The fact that a ‘spotted’ woman is in contact with young charges makes her hidden past more culpable and her vilification greater.
4. Of a disease: characterized by the formation of spots on the skin, as spotted death, spotted pestilence, spotted sickness.Earliest in spotted fever n. at Compounds 3.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > spotted fever
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
spotted pestilence1783
spotted sickness1899
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > other eruptive diseases
gutta rosaceac1400
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
horse-pox1656
flock-pox1672
hog pox1676
spotted pestilence1783
salt rheum1809
molluscum1813
molluscum contagiosum1817
grease-pox1822
horn-pox1822
date fever1836
glass-pock1858
molluscum sebaceum1866
verruga1873
furunculosis1886
gutta rubea1886
flannel rash1888
vaccinide1889
rubeoloid1893
pox1897
veld sores1898
spotted sickness1899
sweat-rash1899
synanthema1899
sporotrichosis1908
alastrim1911
pseudoxanthoma elasticum1933
monkeypox1960
scleromyxœdema1964
yusho1969
1623 J. Chamberlain Let. 6 Dec. (1939) II. 531 Here is a contagious spotted or purple feaver that raigns much.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. v. 423 Those Hectick fevers..have so long afflicted themselves and (as contagious or spotted sicknesses) infected others.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cclxvii. 68 When spotted deaths ran arm'd through every street.
1783 F. G. Waldron Attempt to continue Sad Shepherd iii. 64 The spotted pestilence his bow'r surround!
1825 W. Scott Talisman iii, in Tales Crusaders III. 69 How few can they deliver From lingering pains,..Red Fever, spotted Pestilence.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 853 The ‘spotted sickness’ of tropical America.
1920 J. Masefield Enslaved 97 The spotted pestilence arose And smote them to the marrow.
1988 L. Erdrich Tracks (1989) i. 1 For those who survived the spotted sickness from the south,..what descended from the north in 1912 seemed impossible.
5. Recognized, identified, or singled out, esp. as a criminal or a person acting suspiciously. Usually in spotted man. Cf. marked man n. at marked adj. and n. Compounds 1. Now rare.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adjective] > marked as criminal or suspect
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 484/1 At length he became ‘spotted’. The police got to know him.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 438/1 I have been transported, and am a ‘spotted man’, with whom the police can do as they like.
1864 Daily Tel. 17 May Because the defaulter becomes a ‘spotted’ man, whose word can never more be trusted.
1905 W. B. McCord Hist. Columbiana County viii. 109/2 His inborn sympathy with the ‘downtrodden race’, led him into the anti-slavery movement. Thenceforward he was a ‘spotted man’ in Caldwell County.
1945 A. G. Dickens Diary 7 June in Lübeck Diary (1947) 90 Among the nazis I was a spotted man, because I was a lodge-member and a church-member and an opponent of the methods of nazipress.
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C1. In the names of animals and plants characterized by spotted coloration.Frequently translating a scientific Latin name or epithet of the type maculatus or maculosus.
a. Of mammals.† spotted goat n. Obsolete a type of goat with spotted or patched markings; (in later use) South African the bontebok, Damaliscus pygargus.
spotted axis n. the chital; = spotted deer n.
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1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VIII. 289 Spotted Axis.
c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 49 The Spotted Axis; the Hog Deer, and the Roebuck.
1922 E. Ingersoll Zoölogy xxxi. 320 Southeastern Asia has many kinds of deer, such as..the spotted axis, or chital.
2010 P. Jackson in R. Tilson & P. J. Nyhus Tigers of World (ed. 2) i. 8 While out on elephants we encountered tigers and viewed large herds of spotted axis deer.
spotted cavy n. the lowland paca, Cuniculus paca, of South America.
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1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular V. 396 The spotted cavy is easily accustomed to a domestic life.
1852 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. (new ed.) 111/2 The spotted cavy... Its shape is thick and clumsy, somewhat like that of a pig.
1918 W. E. Fitch Dietotherapy I. xx. 765 Several species of cavia, especially the guinea pig, the spotted cavy,..and the rock cavy, were once used as food in Great Britain.
2001 E. Arango de Morales tr. T. Román de Zurek Cuisine Cartagena de Indias (ed. 2) 231/1 (heading) Spotted cavy with tamarindo leaves.
spotted cougar n. now rare a form of the puma, Felis concolor, which has a suggestion of dark spots in its coat.
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1846 J. L. Megee Reveries in Rhyme 27 The spotted cougar, and the lithe, long snake Glides o'er the marbled floors of rooms where blink The twilight bat and owl.
1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) vii Some naturalists speak of spotted cougars—that is, having spots that may be seen in a certain light.
2004 K. Etling Cougar Attacks vii. 81 A wildlife control officer killed a spotted cougar in the same area.
spotted deer n. the chital or axis deer, Axis axis, of South Asia.
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1679 in H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) 651/2 There being conveniency in this place for ye breeding up of Spotted Deer.
1839 H. Bevan Thirty Years India II. vii. 106 Some pea-fowl, and a fine spotted deer with a full head of antlers, were killed near the same spot.
1905 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 June 176/3 Wild dogs have..made woful havoc of the sambar and spotted deer.
2006 Smithsonian July 61/2 We saw wild boar, spotted deer and even a small herd of hog deer.
spotted dolphin n. a dolphin of the genus Stenella, esp. S. frontalis of the North Atlantic Ocean (also more fully Atlantic spotted dolphin) and S. attenuata of tropical waters (also more fully pantropical spotted dolphin).
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1885 Ann. Rep. Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1884 317 (title) in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (48th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Misc. Doc. 33 Pt. 1) II On a spotted dolphin apparently identical with the Prodelphinus doris of Gray.
1967 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 22 Aug. a6 A spotted dolphin learns to star in a show for landlubbers.
2015 T. A. Jefferson et al. Marine Mammals of World (ed. 2) iv. 249/2 Spotted dolphins associate with yellowfin tuna, spinner dolphins, and other oceanic predators.
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1637 T. Heywood tr. Lucian in Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's v. 97 A spotted Goat into some cave we drive.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 149/1 The..harnessed antelope..is frequent at the Cape, where it is called the bonte-bok, or spotted goat.
a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 671/1 Spotted Goat of the Cape.
spotted hog deer n. now historical the chital; = spotted deer n.; (formerly also) †the Javan mouse deer, Tragulus javanicus (obsolete).The chital, Axis axis, appears formerly to have been confused with the Indian hog deer, A. porcinus.
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1812 Q. Rev. Dec. 377 The little spotted hog-deer is a native of Java.
1835 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Ruminating Animals (Naturalist's Libr: Mammalia III) I. 167 The Spotted Axis is abundant in Bengal..; and by the British sportsmen in India is frequently hunted under the appellation of the Spotted Hog-deer.
1861 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 698 Another member of the Rusine Deer is the well-known Axis, Chittra, or Spotted Hog Deer.
2011 R. Conniff Species Seekers xii. 186 His [sc. S. G. Morton's] paper..cited crosses..between a deer and a pig, producing India's spotted hog-deer.
spotted hyena n. a large social hyena, Crocuta crocuta, which is common on the savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa; also called laughing hyena.
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1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 112 Spotted Hyæna.
1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 369/1 The Spotted Hyæna, or Tiger-Wolf of the [South African] colonists.
1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo vii. 112 We could always make our spotted hyena..laugh by holding his meat an extra moment or two.
2001 Y. Martel Life of Pi (2002) xli. 110 I never thought that finding myself confined in a small space with a spotted hyena would be good news.
spotted marten n. Australian (now historical) the spot-tailed or tiger quoll, Dasyurus maculatus, a marsupial native cat of eastern Australia.
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1789 A. Phillip Voy. Botany Bay 276 Spotted Martin. The species is about the size of a large polecat.
1852 Papers & Proc. Royal Soc. Van Diemen's Land 2 i. 81 Dasyurus maculatus... The Spotted Martin... ‘Tiger Cat’ of the Colonists of Tasmania,..distinguished from D. viverrinus, (the ‘Native Cat’ of the Colonists), by its superior size.
2007 S. A. King Animal Dreaming (rev. ed.) 64 The early settlers quickly became familiar with the Quoll, calling it ‘Native Cat’, ‘Native Polecat’ and ‘Spotted Marten’.
spotted monkey n.
Brit. /ˌspɒtᵻd ˈmʌŋki/
, /ˌspɒtᵻd ˈmʌŋki/U.S. /ˌspɑdəd ˈməŋki/
, /ˌspɑdəd ˈməŋki/West African English /ˌspɔtɛd ˈmɔŋki/
a monkey with white specks or spots in the coat; (formerly) spec. the Diana monkey, Cercopithecus diana, of West Africa./ˌspɔtɛd ˈmɔŋki/ΚΠ
1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 112 (heading) Monkies... Spotted... L'Exquima de Buffon.
1891 G. Casati tr. J. Randolph Clay Ten Years Equatoria II. iii. 40 Colonies of spotted monkeys make frequent pillaging incursions from the thickets into the fields and banana plantations.
2011 J. Stephens Emerald Atlas ix. 149 There were pandas and..spotted monkeys that whooped and chattered as they fell through the trees.
spotted opossum n. Australian (now historical) either of two marsupial native cats, the eastern quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus, now confined to Tasmania, or the northern quoll, D. hallucatus, of northern Australia.
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1789 A. Phillip Voy. Botany Bay 147 The Spotted Opossum.
1827 Westm. Rev. July 230 There is also the viverrine dasyurus, the tapoa tafa, or spotted opossum, besides other varieties.
1901 W. E. Roth Food: its Search, Capture, & Prep. 30 The ring-tailed spotted opossum—black with white spots—is tracked not only by its claw-marks, but also by its scent.
2013 M. Lefebure Private Lives Anc. Mariner v. xxi. 178 Charles Lamb never forgot Derwent,..picking out the striped or spotted opossum.
spotted seal n. (formerly) †the common or harbour seal, Phoca vitulina (obsolete); (in later use) the related P. largha, found on the arctic and subarctic coasts of the North Pacific (also called largha seal).
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1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. i. i. 6 In the spring great numbers of spotted seals go into this lake.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 67 The common spotted seal (Phoca vitulina).
1911 Outlook 5 Aug. 797/1 A pair of serious-looking spotted seals rested their flippers on the edge of their tank.
2004 P. Lively in Slightly Foxed Winter 31 I shall never see bearded seals, ribbon seals, spotted seals. Or the birds on Tula Lake.
spotted skunk n. any of several small skunks comprising the genus Spilogale, which are found chiefly in the United States and Mexico and have black fur marbled with white blotches and broken stripes; also with distinguishing word.
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1842 J. S. Buckingham Slave States Amer. II. xii. 283 A racoon, a red and a grey fox, a badger, and a black and white spotted skunk, all caught in the neighbouring mountains.
1932 Illustr. London News 2 Apr. 501 (caption) A spotted skunk with his tail curling up, ready for spraying.
2003 Jrnl. Mammalogy 84 939/1 We considered spotted skunks (Spilogale) as consisting of 3 species: western spotted skunk (S. gracilis), eastern spotted skunk (S. putorius), and pygmy spotted skunk (S. pygmaea).
spotted wildcat n. now rare any of various smaller cats with spotted coats; esp. a wildcat of the South Asian subspecies Felis silvestris torquata.
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1817 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. Oct. 437/2 The other Quadrupeds seen by Leraye..are the following... Spotted wild cat, Felis pardalis?
1857 J. M. Phillippo U.S. & Cuba xiv. 165 The spotted wild-cat (felis rufa), so destructive to the young domestic stock of the backwoodsman.
1867 T. C. Jerdon Mammals India 110 Felis torquata... The Spotted Wild Cat.
c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 59 The Spotted Wild Cat..is of a grey colour, spotted with black.
1943 Billboard (Cincinnati) 29 May 61/4 For sale on account of sickness—..African Lion, Giant Rhesus Monk[ey], Spotted Wild Cat, [etc.].
b. Of reptiles and amphibians.† spotted boa n. Obsolete the anaconda, Eunectes murinus.† spotted eft n. [ < spotted adj. + eft n.1] Obsolete a spotted salamander; spec. (chiefly U.S.) Ambystoma maculatum.† spotted tortoise n. North American Obsolete the spotted turtle, Clemmys guttata.
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1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 343 The spotted Boa is sometimes scarcely inferior in size to the Constrictor.
1874 W. H. G. Kingston Western World xiv. 523 The boa scytale, or spotted boa, is of a grayish colour, marked with round spots.
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1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 162 Stellio aquaticus minor Americanus. The spotted Eft.
1891 Daily News 14 Sept. 5/4 A small newt-like creature from North America, which is known as the spotted eft.
1906 E. Phillpotts Golden Fetich xi. 138 It [sc. the monster] had showed him great kindness,..and sent a gift of a wondrous spotted eft to King Kanatto.
spotted lizard n. any of various lizards with spotted coloration, as the Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus, and the lesser earless lizard of North America, Holbrookia maculata.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. iv. 358 For the spotted Lizards, called Stellions, a scorpion stamped is singular good against their poyson.
1831 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IX. Syn. 34 Spotted Lizard, Lacerta Guttulata.
1904 F. W. Hutton & J. Drummond Animals N.Z. 347 The Spotted Lizard.—Kakariki. Naultinus elegans.
1921 Maine Naturalist 1 52 The common swifter spotted lizard of the Eastern half of the United States is one of our most valuable insect destroyers.
2007 J. Sorabella in A. Cohen & J. B. Rutter Constr. Childhood Anc. Greece & Italy vi. xix. 363 The spotted lizard, which Latin speakers called a stellio, is a common sight throughout the Mediterranean.
spotted salamander n. [originally after German gefleckter Salamander (1837 in the passage translated in quot. 1839, or earlier)] either of two common salamanders that are typically black with yellowish spots: the fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra, of Europe, and (now chiefly) a mole salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, of eastern North America.
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1839 W. Baly tr. J. Müller Elements Physiol. (ed. 2) I. iii. 757 The experiments on the land or spotted salamander are still more instructive.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xviii. 478 The spotted salamander (Salamandra maculosa) shows the following points of interest.
1953 H. S. Zim & H. M. Smith Reptiles & Amphibians vi. 144 Spotted salamander..has large, round, yellow, or orange spots on a black skin.
2003 Nat. New Eng. Summer 46 She concentrated on wood frogs and spotted salamanders, species that have declined in the intensively developed state.
spotted snake n. now rare any of various snakes with spotted coloration, as the Eurasian smooth snake, Coronella austriaca, and the American night snake, Hypsiglena torquata.In quot. 1600: figurative.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 9 You spotted Snakes, with double tongue..Come not neere our Fairy Queene. View more context for this quotation
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Plack-slange, a spotted Snake or Adder.
c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 301 Taking the Common English Spotted Snake as an example.
1978 G. B. Wiersma et al. Devel. Pollutant Monitoring Syst. Biosphere Reserves Appendix C. 106 (list) Hypsiglena torquata. (Spotted Snake).
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1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 47 The Testudo guttata, or Spotted Tortoise.
1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 158 The ‘Spotted Tortoise’ or ‘Speckled Turtle’, Chelopus guttatus.
1921 G. Reid Christian's Appreciation Faiths vii. 149 I saw a little spotted tortoise sunning himself in the shallow water.
spotted turtle n. [probably after scientific Latin Testudo punctata (1792)] a small freshwater turtle native to eastern North America, Clemmys guttata (family Emydidae), having a smooth black carapace with a varying number of small yellow spots, and a dark head, neck, and limbs which may also be spotted.Also called spotted tortoise.
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1827 Jrnl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 6 25 Emys punctata... Vulgo, Spotted turtle... Shell blackish, with remote bright, yellow, round spots.
1972 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. e12/2 Little spotted turtles sun themselves on old logs and slip quietly into the water when anyone appears.
2005 R. W. Tiner In Search of Swampland (ed. 2) vi. 88 (caption) The spotted turtle is found in a variety of wetlands from marshes and wet meadows to forested wetlands and bogs.
c. Of birds.† spotted emu n. Obsolete a form of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae, with plumage thought of as spotted.† spotted grouse n. North American Obsolete a North American game bird with spotted plumage; esp. the spruce grouse, Falcipennis canadensis.† spotted manakin n. Obsolete either of two small perching birds with spotted plumage: (in early use) an antbird, Hylophylax naevius (family Thamnophilidae); (in later use) the spotted pardalote, Pardalotus punctatus.† spotted plover n. Obsolete any of the golden plovers (genus Pluvialis), which have black and gold spots on the upperparts in their breeding plumage.† spotted ring pigeon n. Obsolete rare the olive pigeon of East Africa, Columba arquatrix, which has maroon back, wings, and underparts with white spots.† spotted snipe n. Obsolete = spotted redshank n.† spotted woodcock n. U.S. Obsolete rare the greater yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca, a large wader breeding in northern North America, with dark streaks on the pale neck and breast.
spotted bowerbird n. a bowerbird of eastern Australia, Chlamydera maculata, which has brown plumage with pale spots.
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1841 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) IV. Pl. 8 Chlamydera maculata... Spotted Bower-bird.
1916 S. A. White In Far Northwest 68 After a time a beautiful male spotted bower bird..came.
2009 J. A. Coyne Why Evol. is True vi. 167 In spotted bowerbirds, the most success is achieved by displaying green Solanum berries.
spotted crake n. a small migratory rail of marshes in Eurasia, Porzana porzana, which has brown and grey plumage with white spots on the flanks.
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1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. i. 223 Spotted Crake.
1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore ii. 26 I believe it was a spotted crake.
2006 Bird Watching Aug. 112/2 A singing Spotted Crake at a private site was our first such record for over 100 years.
spotted cuckoo n. (more fully great spotted cuckoo, greater spotted cuckoo) a large, migratory crested cuckoo of Africa and the Mediterranean, Clamator glandarius, which has a brown back with white markings; (formerly also) †= railbird n.2 1.
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1747 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds II. 127/2 Great Spotted Cuckow.
1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 539 Spotted Cuckow;..inhabits Cayenne.
1895 R. B. Sharpe in R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 2 The great spotted cuckoo (C. glandarius) has twice occurred in England.
1992 New Scientist 22 Feb. 44/2 For some species, such as white stork, greater spotted cuckoo and even fan-tailed warbler, the migration patterns are linked more with wet and dry seasons.
2001 Times 29 Mar. i. 8/6 A Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius), a rare visitor, appeared in Kent after overshooting its normal haunts in Spain.
spotted eagle n. any of various eagles with some spotted plumage; (now) spec. any of two or three Eurasian eagles now sometimes placed in the genus Clanga.
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1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. II. i. 9 The Spotted Eagle, Mr. Ray thinks is the same Bird as that called the Bald Buzzard.
1845 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds 1st Suppl. 11 The Spotted Eagle, Aquila nævia.
1932 J. G. Neihardt Black Elk Speaks v. 64 I was away from the village alone, when I heard a spotted eagle whistle.
2012 Birdwatch Apr. 80/4 Spanish raptor records included three Pallid Harriers, three Long-legged Buzzards and four Spotted Eagles.
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1865 J. Gould Handbk. Birds Austral. II. 204 (heading) Spotted Emu.
c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 235 The Spotted Emu (Dromæus irroratus) has often bred in captivity in this country.
1907 Avicultural Mag. June 234 The newest additions to this fine collection are two Spotted Emus which have the run of an orchard.
spotted falcon n. now historical a kind of falcon, apparently an immature form of the peregrine, Falco peregrinus.
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1743 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds I. 3 The Spotted Hawk or Falcon... This Bird was brought from Hudson's-Bay, and presented to Dr. Maffey at Stepney.
1821 P. J. Selby Brit. Ornithol. i. 39 Spotted Falcon: a name for the Peregrine Falcon.
1968 Auk 85 182 The description of Falco maculatus of Brisson (1760)..is based on the Spotted Falcon, Falco tachete of Edwards.
spotted flycatcher n. a migratory Eurasian songbird, Muscicapa striata (family Muscicapidae), whose plumage is chiefly grey-brown above and whitish below.
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1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 27 (margin) Spotted. Fly-catcher.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 243 The Spotted Fly-catcher (Muscicapa griseola) can hardly be said to be a song-bird.
1921 Glasgow Herald 25 June 5/7 The spotted fly-catchers..are ash-brown above with a central dark line on the head feathers.
2012 Birdwatch Apr. 15/1 Common Swifts and Spotted Flycatchers are the last migrants to arrive.
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1771 J. R. Forster tr. J. B. Bossu Trav. Louisiana I. 95 The spotted grous.
1828 C. L. Bonaparte Amer. Ornithol. III. 31 The Red Grous,..and T. canadensis, or Spotted Grous, have but sixteen [feathers in the tail].
1910 E. H. Eaton Birds N.Y. I. 365 Spotted grouse or Spruce ‘partridge’, is confined to the boreal life zone of North America.
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1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 527 Spotted M [anakin] .
1825 Encycl. Londinensis XX. 506/1 Pipra nævia, the spotted manakin: upper parts of the body, quills, and tail, brown.
1829 Catal. Animals Preserved in Mus. Zool. Soc. 26 The spotted Manakin, (Pardalotus punctatus, Vieill.), is the representative of the Manakins in New Holland.
1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. 491/2 Pardalotus. A genus of Australian birds... We give a figure of the Spotted Manakin, as characteristic of the genus.
spotted owl n. †(a) North American the snowy owl, Nyctea scandiaca (or Bubo scandiacus) (obsolete); (b) a large owl of forests in western North America, Strix occidentalis, which has dark brown plumage with white spots and barring; see also northern spotted owl n. at northern adj., n., and adv. Compounds.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > nyctea nivea (snowy-owl)
harfang1774
snowy owl1781
spotted owl1785
wapacuthu1785
snow-owl1811
snowy1904
the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > other types of
spotted owl1785
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1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 232 Called by the Indians, Wapacuthu, or the Spotted Owl.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wapacut, the spotted owl of Hudson's Bay.
1896 R. Ridgway Man. N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 259 (heading) S. occidentale Xantus. Spotted owl.
1961 R. T. Peterson Field Guide W. Birds (ed. 2) 162 Spotted owl... A large dark-brown forest owl with a puffy round head.
2003 Birder's World Apr. 16/1 The Species at Risk Act..provides protections for the Spotted Owl, Piping Plover, [etc.].
spotted pardalote n. a very small Australian pardalote, Pardalotus punctatus, which has dark upperparts with prominent white spots; also called diamond bird.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Dicaeidae (flower-pecker) > other types of
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1844 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) II. Pl. 35 Pardalotus punctatus..Spotted Pardalote..Diamond Bird, Colonists of New South Wales.
1976 Reader's Digest Compl. Bk. Austral. Birds 517 Tiny white jewel-like spots adorn the forehead, wings and tail of the male spotted pardalote, and the wings and tail of the female.
2014 D. Lindenmayer et al. Booderee National Park ii. 32 One of the most striking survivors of wildfire in Booderee is the Spotted Pardalote.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis apricaria (Eurasian golden plover)
green plover1550
spotted plover1750
golden plover1766
yellow plover1793
grey plover1885
squealer1888
1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 140 The Spotted-Plover.
1837 J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 75 Plover.—Atraradnus. Of these there is the kildear, spotted plover and ring-neck.
1904 Emu 1 Oct. 65 At Lake Ellesmere, in 1900, the first example of the Spotted Plover for the South Island was shot.
spotted redshank n. a migratory wader breeding in arctic Eurasia, Tringa erythropus, which has chiefly black plumage in the breeding season and very pale plumage in winter; also called dusky redshank.
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1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 357 The Spotted Redshank... In size it is equal to the preceding [sc. green shank].
1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 523 As the white spots on the wings..are permanent in this bird at all ages and seasons, I have preferred calling it the Spotted Redshank.
1952 Times 23 Dec. 8/5 The more unusual wading birds included Temmink's stint..and spotted redshank.
2006 Bird Watching Aug. 59/2 The piercing call of a Spotted Redshank always fills me with delight.
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1823 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds VIII. 17 (heading) Spotted Ring Pigeon.
1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 78 Spotted Ring Pigeon,..Columba Arquatrix.
spotted sandpiper n. a small migratory wader breeding in North America, Actitis macularius, which has white underparts with black spots in the breeding season.Formerly considered conspecific with the common sandpiper, A. hypoleucos, of Eurasia.
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1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 124 The spotted Sandpiper..is common to Europe and America.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 260 Tringoides, Spotted Sandpiper.
2012 Birdwatch Apr. 80/4 A Spotted Sandpiper and a Wilson's Snipe provided the roll call.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa macularia
jack snipe1664
grassbird?1740
spotted snipe1785
rock-bird1792
peetweet1838
teeter1844
teeter-tail1917
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 148 Spotted Snipe.
1823 Encycl. Brit. XV. 522/1 Spotted snipe, red-legged godwit, or spotted redshank.
1900 Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 1898–9 224 Spotted Redshank..Spotted Snipe.
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1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 410 Scolopax..Totanus... Spotted Woodcock... This bird is called a yellow leg at Albany fort.
spotted woodpecker n. any of several woodpeckers with black and white spotted plumage; (now) spec. a member of the Eurasian genus Dendrocopos, esp. the common D. major; = great spotted woodpecker n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1g; usually with distinguishing word.In quot. 1782: the hairy woodpecker, Picoides villosus.
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1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 84 The greater spotted Wood-pecker or Hickwall; Picus varius major.
1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 569 Canadian Spotted Woodpecker;..wing coverts and quills spotted with white.
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. (at cited word) The Spotted Woodpecker is less frequent in England than the Green.
1848 Zoologist 6 2191 The greater and lesser spotted woodpecker..are known by the most appropriate name of ‘pump-borer’.
1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) I. 390 Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Dryobates medius... Pennant's Lancashire record cannot be considered satisfactory.
2010 Guardian 27 Mar. 16/5 Traditional orchards supported a range of flora and fauna, including rare and threatened species such as..the lesser spotted woodpecker.
d. Of fishes.† spotted black rockfish n. U.S. Obsolete the black rockfish, Sebastes melanops (family Sebastidae), of the north-eastern Pacific.† spotted blenny n. Obsolete the (rock) gunnel, Pholis gunnellus (family Pholidae), of the North Atlantic.† spotted hind n. Obsolete rare the calico grouper or speckled hind, Epinephelus drummondhayi (family Serranidae), of deeper waters in the West Atlantic.† spotted lamprey n. Obsolete the sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus.
spotted bass n. either of two fishes of south-eastern North America, a freshwater sunfish, Micropterus punctulatus (family Centrarchidae), and (occasionally) the red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, of coastal waters.
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1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina ii. v. 166 Innumerable bands of fish are seen..flounder, spotted bass, [etc.].
1876 G. B. Goode Classif. Coll. Illustr. Animal Resources U.S. 62 Red fish or spotted bass (Sciænops ocellatus).
1989 M. E. Monaco et al. Distribution & Abundance Fishes & Invertebr. Texas Estuaries (U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin.) App. IV. 69/1 Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus)... Other Common Names—red fish, channel bass, drum, branded drum, spotted bass, spottail.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 648/2 This bass resembles the spotted bass except for differences in coloration, scales, and dentition.
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1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 266 Spotted Black Rock-Fish (Sebastichthys melanops).
1908 C. Bradford Angler's Guide 40 Rockfish, Spotted Black..: Caught on small-fish, clam, and crab bait from Monterey to Puget Sound.
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1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 171 (heading) The spotted blenny.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 292 The Spotted Blenny..is found under stones among the sea-weed.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 208 Centronotus Gunnellus... Spotted blenny.
spotted cat n. any of various spotted catfishes; esp. (U.S.) the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus.
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1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xviii. 60 The spotted-cat..this fish is formed not unlike a pike.
1888 Science 9 Nov. 220/1 The varieties of edible fishes planted in these rivers include all the common kinds, such as spotted cat,..and pickerel.
1922 Field & Stream June 168/2 The spotted cat, however, rarely exceeds twenty-five pounds.
2000 K. B. Sutton Catching Catfish 18 In some areas they [sc. channel catfish] are dubbed blue channel, fiddler, speckled cat, spotted cat, [etc.].
spotted dogfish n. either of two cat sharks of the genus Scyliorhinus found in the north-east Atlantic, (more fully lesser spotted dogfish) the small-spotted cat shark or rough hound, S. canicula, and (more fully greater spotted dogfish) the nurse hound or bull huss, S. stellaris.
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1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. 404 (list) Spotted Dog fish... Lesser Dog fish.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 310 Spotted, small-spotted, and lesser-spotted dog-fish.
1972 A. Wrangles Inshore Sport Fishing v. 118 Greater spotted dogfish... Local names. Bull huss, nurse hound, etc.
2008 R. Stein R. Stein's Compl. Seafood iii. 245/1 The best dog-fish is the Spur-dog, though the Lesser Spotted Dogfish..is also good.
spotted goby n. any of various gobies with spotted coloration, as Gobiusculus flavescens of the north-east Atlantic, Coryphopterus punctipectophorus of the western Atlantic, and Stigmatogobius sadamundio of Asian waters.
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1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. 348 Spotted Goby.
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 98 The Spotted Goby..differs from the other species in wanting the silk-like pectoral fins.
1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 380 (heading) The Spotted Goby... Native to India, Burma, the Malay Archipelago and the Philippines.
2004 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 14 Sept. (Travel section) The coloured corals harbour countless types of fish, from stargazers and moon wrasse to spotted gobies and yellow trumpet fish.
spotted grunt n. any of several grunts (family Haemulidae) with spotted coloration; esp. the small-spotted grunter, Pomadasys commersonnii, of the Indian Ocean.
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1876 G. B. Goode Catal. Fishes Bermudas 54 The fishermen recognize several others, as the Yellow, Streaked, Spotted, and Black Grunts.
1989 M. J. Sanders & G. R. Morgan Rev. Fisheries Resources Red Sea & Gulf of Aden (Food & Agric. Org.) iii. 74 (table) Spotted grunts..Pomadasys spercularis [sic].
2003 Independent (London) (Nexis) 28 June (Features section) The spotted grunt is a particularly colourful tropical fish.
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1883 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1882 5 272 Spotted hind...a beautifully colored species.
1921 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 74/2 There is a related fish which has a color pattern almost exactly like that of the Rock Hind, namely the Spotted Hind.
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1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 448 Petromyzon marinus, Spotted Lamprey.
1893 S. H. Gage in Wilder Quarter-Century Bk. 429 The marine lamprey is designated by the fishermen as the large spotted lamprey.
1921 Collier's New Encycl. V. 406/1 The sea, or spotted lamprey..is an eel-like fish, nearly three feet long.
spotted ling n. (formerly) a form of the common ling, Molva molva, with spotted coloration; (in later use) the rock ling, Genypterus tigerinus, of Australasian waters.
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1805 J. J. Oddy European Commerce v. vii. 375 Ling..is mostly exported from Bergen, where they give the best kind the name of (blankelange), white ling; the middling sort (skruelange), or spotted ling, from its body being a little spotted.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 306 Spotted-ling, white-ling, and stake.
2014 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 4 Sept. (Sports section) 37 Among those to catch them were Daniel Mammoliti..and Bruce Symons, whose catch included a spotted ling.
spotted moray n. a moray eel, Gymnothorax moringa, living in shallow reefs, sea grass meadows, and rocky areas of the Atlantic Ocean, with white or pale skin covered in small, overlapping reddish-brown spots; cf. speckled moray n. at speckled adj. Compounds 1a(b).
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1877 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 114 293 Gymnothorax punctatus... Small Yellow Spotted Maray.
1963 N.Y. Times 8 Sept. xx. 3/8 In one [tank], a spotted moray drapes its brown-speckle length around rocks.
2006 M. Halls & M. Krestovnikoff Scuba Diving viii. 319/1 (table) Must-sees. Hammerhead schools; spotted morays in Malpelo; white-tip reef sharks hunting prey.
spotted ray n. a small ray of the north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean, Raja montagui, which is covered with dark spots.
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1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. ii. 316 Spotted Ray... Raja maculata.
1903 Jrnl. Marine Biol. Assoc. 6 449 In Start Bay it [sc. the thornback ray] is virtually replaced by two other species, the Homelyn (or spotted ray) and the Blonde.
2013 J. Whippy Sea Fishing (ed. 2) 98 The spotted ray is a small species that seldom grows bigger than 8lb in weight.
spotted rock trout n. U.S. any of several greenlings (genus Hexagrammos) of north-east Pacific coasts, with spotted coloration.
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1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 267 Spotted Rock Trout (Hexagrammus decagrammus).
1903 T. Gill Goode's Amer. Fishes (new ed.) p. xxxii A Hexagrammoid fish.., also inaptly named Spotted Rock Trout, was by others called Rock Cod.
2012 C. Schuhmann Oregon Fishing (ed. 2) 70/1 Spotted Rock Trout..are abundant on the Oregon coast.
spotted sea trout n. the spotted weakfish, Cynoscion nebulosus (family Sciaenidae), of estuarine waters of the west Atlantic.
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1853 R. Bentley in Bentley's Misc. Jan. 416 The spotted sea-trout, and salmon rare, To Cormac's hall it often bare.
1959 Pop. Mech. May 247/1 The spoon is a popular lure for spotted sea trout and redfish in bays along the Gulf Coast.
2003 Nature Conservancy Winter 62/1 Redfish and spotted sea trout glint beneath the water.
spotted sunfish n. a freshwater sunfish of the south-eastern United States, Lepomis punctatus (family Centrarchidae), with rows of dark spots.
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1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 386 Mud-loving species are nine in number, all common to the Delaware...They are the Spotted Sun-fish, [etc.].
1961 Boys' Life Aug. 56/3 Best for the aquarium are the pumpkinseed, the diamond or spotted sunfish, the long-ear sunfish, [etc.].
2014 Targeted News Service (Nexis) 10 June Spotted sunfish..present a fun fishing challenge for anglers.
spotted trout n. U.S. any of various trout-like North American fishes with spotted coloration, as the spotted sea trout, Cynoscion nebulosus (family Sciaenidae), of south-eastern coasts, and the black crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (family Centrarchidae), of fresh water.
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1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 365 The Spotted Squeteague..is usually known on the Southern coast as the ‘Salmon’ or ‘Spotted Trout’.
1936 Pop. Mech. July 30/2 More than sixty names are known for them [sc. crappies], including speckled perch, barfish.., papermouth and spotted trout.
2014 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 22 July (News section) 1 I went fishing yesterday afternoon and caught quite a few spotted trout.
spotted turbot n. a spotted flatfish of North American coasts; esp. the small Pleuronichthys ritteri (family Pleuronectidae) of the eastern Pacific.
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1842 J. E. De Kay Zool. N.-Y. iv. 301 (heading) The Spotted Turbot.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 177 Lophopsetta maculata, is sometimes called the Spotted Turbot.
1974 R. Z. Riznyk in M. D. Dailey et al. Summary Knowl. S. Calif. Coastal Zone III. (U.S. Dept. Interior) xxi. 26 The California killifish..is an important forage fish for larger species as the California halibut, spotted turbot, [etc.].
2011 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 July (Travel section) The signature of the restaurant..is simply grilled, ugly but delicious spotted turbot.
spotted wrasse n. any of various wrasses with spotted coloration, as the cuckoo wrasse ( Labrus mixtus) and ballan wrasse ( L. bergylta) of the north-eastern Atlantic.
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?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. X. 111 (heading) The Spotted Wrasse.
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 75 The Cook Wrasse (Labrus mixtus)..is also known..as the Red Wrasse, Striped Wrasse, and Spotted Wrasse.
1920 J. Ritchie Influence Man on Animal Life Scotl. i. 19 Eight species have been preserved, such as the Conger Eel (Conger conger).., the Sea Bream (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spotted Wrasse (Labrus maculatus), [etc.].
2007 Behaviour 144 954 Species in which territory quality has been found to play a central role in female mate choice include..spotted wrasse.
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?1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 20 The Spotted Buff-Moth. The Caterpillars of this Moth are very mischievous in Gardens, feeding on most Kind of Herbage.
1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 152 Betularia. Spotted Elm Moth. Wings white, spotted and waved with black-brown.
1800 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects IX. 39 Phalæna quadra. Spotted Footman Moth.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 44 The Spotted Muslin (Diaphora mendica, Stephens) appears the middle of May.
1894 Manch. Weekly Times 28 Sept. 6/1 The Spotted Hawk moth..has been frequently found in the neighbourhood of Liverpool.
1931 O. I. Snapp Insects attacking Peach (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1557) (rev. ed.) 35 The spotted cucumber beetles pass the winter in the adult stage.
1959 Jrnl. Range Managem. 12 217/1 (heading) Spotted aphid resistant alfalfa released.
1980 Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) 14 Aug. b10/5 The field contained a large population of spotted cutworms.
2015 C. Manley Brit. Moths (ed. 2) 284/2 Spotted Sulphur Acontia trabealis 11mm Presumed extinct.
f. Of plants.† spotted archangel n. Obsolete the spotted dead-nettle of Eurasia, Lamium maculatum (family Lamiaceae), a prostrate herbaceous perennial whose leaves bear a pale spot or patch.† spotted arsesmart n. Obsolete the common persicaria, Persicaria maculosa; = spotted persicaria at persicaria n.† spotted snakeweed n. Obsolete the common persicaria, Persicaria maculosa; = spotted persicaria at persicaria n.
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1803 J. Fox & J. Bradley New Med. Dict. Milzadella, spotted archangel.
1900 Meehan’s Monthly July 107/2 In the old-fashioned gardens one of the most welcome of spring flowers was the Lamium maculatum, or the Spotted Archangel.
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1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. cxiv. 445 (caption) Dead or spotted Arsmart.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Persicaria The common mild or spotted arsmart.
1873 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. & Trans. 18 Oct. 317/1 Polygonum persicaria (dead or spotted arsmart) was an infallible remedy against all the effects of magic.
1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land 220 Polygonum persicaria..spotted arsesmart.
spotted cat's ear n. (also spotted cat's ears) a perennial herbaceous plant of north temperate Eurasia, Hypochaeris maculata (family Asteraceae), having yellow flowers on tall stalks above a basal rosette of leaves bearing dark patches.
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1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 691 Hypochæris... Spotted Cats-ears.
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 193 Spotted Cat's-ear..is a rare plant.
1999 J. Griffiths Pip Pip i. 13 The time of day was shown by the staggered blooming of various flowers, the spotted cat's ear at six in the morning, the passion flower at noon, [etc.].
spotted cowbane n. a water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of North America, having leaves bearing purple spots or stripes.
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1826 W. Darlington Florula Cestrica 35 Spotted Cow-bane...The whole plant, in open grounds, is purplish and spotted.
2009 Survival Handbk. (Royal Marines) 305/3 Water hemlock or spotted cowbane.., which looks similar, is also deadly poisonous.
spotted dead nettle n. a type of dead nettle widely cultivated as ground cover in gardens, Lamium maculatum, typically having hairy, toothed, ovate leaves with white markings, and hooded pink or purple flowers.
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1814 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXXVI. 2550 (heading) Lamium maculatum. Spotted Dead-nettle.
1970 Dubois County Daily Herald (Jasper, Indiana) 4 May 11/2 In May, the spotted dead nettle produces a mass of rose colored flowers.
2014 S. Coronado Illinois Getting Started Garden Guide 84 Spotted dead nettle can be hairy, but it does not have the stinging nettles.
spotted gum n. any of several Australian eucalypts of the genus Corymbia, esp. C. maculata, having contrasting patches on the bark.
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1824 Sydney Gaz. 27 May 4/3 He has nearly One Thousand Loads of Timber, consisting of Cedar, and Blue, Flooded, and Spotted Gums,..ready for shipping.
1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. i. 11 Ironbark ridges here and there with spotted gum..diversified the sameness.
2008 North Shore (Austral.) Times (Nexis) 10 Oct. 40 There are two Queensland firewheel trees, four tall spotted gums,..and many more.
spotted hemlock n. either of two hemlocks (family Apiaceae), the common hemlock of Europe and North Africa ( Conium maculatum) and the water hemlock of North America ( Cicuta maculata).
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1764 J. Hill Veg. Syst. VI. 23 Spotted hemlock.
1869 Belfast News-let. 8 Apr. A boat's crew of H.M.S. Wellington, while on shore at Campbeltown, dug a quantity of spotted hemlock (conium maculatum), which they mistook for wild celery or parsley.
1934 Ecol. Monogr. 4 240 The water or spotted hemlock, Cicuta maculata L., is a stout, erect, much branched, perennial herb that is found only in moist or wet soil.
2009 S. McKay Hue & Cry 138 ‘This,’ she took down a small jar from the shelf and spilled out the seed in her palm, ‘is spotted hemlock.’
spotted knapweed n. North American a knapweed, Centaurea stoebe (formerly C. maculosa), native to eastern Europe and widely regarded as an invasive agricultural weed in North America.
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1913 N. L. Britton & A. Brown Illustr. Flora Northern U.S. (ed. 2) III. 558 Centaurea maculosa..Spotted Knapweed.
1954 Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) 19 Aug. 5 The spotted knapweed has no underground tentacles, but shoots up four or five new plants from a large taproot.
2012 Ecology 93 783 Centaurea stoebe (spotted knapweed) is a notorious rangeland weed that exhibited regional declines in the early 2000s, attributed to drought by some and to successful biocontrol by others.
spotted laurel n. an evergreen shrub, Aucuba japonica, native to China, Korea, and Japan but widely cultivated elsewhere as a garden plant, having red berries and glossy green, ovate leaves with yellow spots or patches.
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1841 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Compan. to Flower Garden 22/1 It is common in every garden, and it is often called the Japan, or spotted laurel.
1983 D. G. Hessayon Tree & Shrub Expert ii. 10 The popular varieties are the variegated ones (Spotted Laurels) and they need some sun to show off the yellow splashes on the leaves.
2001 Financial Times 7 Apr. 18 Spotted laurel works out at £14.50 in a 9in pot, which usefully prices it out of English gardeners' reach.
spotted lungwort n. the common lungwort, Pulmonaria officinalis.
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1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Lungwort, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Lungwort spotted, Pulmonaria maculosa.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Pulmonaria Common spotted Lungwort, by some call'd Sage of Jerusalem.
1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 68 As in the spotted and officinal lung-wort.
2000 L. Springer & R. Proctor Passionate Gardening ii. 70 Spotted lungwort.., its silver-mottled foliage as lovely as its nodding blue and pink flowers, is perfect with pale yellow trout lilies.
spotted medick n. a medick, Medicago arabica (formerly M. maculata), of south and west Europe, having a low, trailing growth habit and a dark spot towards the centre of each leaflet.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > medicks
medick?1440
snail clover1548
heart trefoil1597
snails1629
melilot trefoil1677
Barbary buttons1712
black-seed1763
snail-plant1767
black medick1778
heart liver1792
snail-shell medick1796
spotted medick1825
hop1866
Calvary clover1882
1825 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora III. 319 M. maculata Spotted Medick.
1903 E. F. Andrews Bot. all Year Round ii. 51 Place a healthy plant of oxalis, spotted medick, or white clover in a pot and keep it in your room for observation.
2003 Lincs. Echo (Nexis) 5 May 19 If you are in the Trentport area.., look out for one of our small rare wild flowers, the spotted medick.
spotted orchid n. any of various orchids with spots or streaks on the leaves or petals; spec. any of a group of orchids of the chiefly Eurasian genus Dactylorhiza, typically having purple speckles on the leaves, as the widespread D. fuchsii (more fully common spotted orchid) and D. maculata (more fully heath spotted orchid).
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a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 861 Not to be forgotten are the spotted orchids, sometimes very abundant.
1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside v. xvii. 189 The plants that are now no longer found in Bedfordshire..include grass of parnassus, sundew, marsh orchid, heath spotted orchid and snake's head fritillary.
2001 Guardian 12 May (Weekend Suppl.) 89/2 Dactylorhizas, the spotted orchids, grow in very wet places in the wild.
2008 R. Beard Becoming Drusilla (2009) xi. 237 Beside the path there are sea pinks in abundant clumps, common spotted orchids, sheep's sorrel..and broomrape.
spotted orchis n. now rare a spotted orchid, esp. (more fully spotted palmate orchis) one of the genus Dactylorhiza.
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1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. II. 17 Spotted Orchis.
1882 Garden 11 Feb. 89/1 The Spotted Palmate Orchis is found, I believe, in every part of the Kingdom.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 431 Spotted-Orchis, Tasmanian name for the Orchid Dipodium punctatum.
1974 W. Condry Woodlands iii. 34 There may be a varied assortment of such species as bugle.., wood sanicle, wood spotted orchis, early purple orchis, [etc.].
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1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain i. ix. 103 Polygonum persicaria..Spotted Snakeweed.
1835 Weekly Visitor Aug. (Suppl.) 315/2 On the margin of every pool,..may be found the spotted snakeweed.
spotted tree n. Australian (now rare) a leopard tree of eastern Australia, Flindersia maculosa (family Rutaceae).
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1859 Gardeners' Chron. 27 Aug. 710/1 The squatters on the Darling have very appropriately applied to it the name of ‘Spotted Tree’.
1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1344/1 Spotted Tree of the Queensland colonists. Flindersia maculosa, the trunk of which is remarkably spotted by the falling off of the outer bark in patches.
1944 Land (Sydney) 3 Mar. 8/3 The Leopard or Spotted Tree..has a very fair fodder value.
spotted wintergreen n. a small perennial evergreen plant of North and Central America, Chimaphila maculata (family Ericaceae), having dark green leaves with white veins.
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1768 J. Hill Veg. Syst. XIII. 12 (heading) Spotted wintergreen.
2013 B. MacKay Year Across Maryland 9 Spotted Wintergreen is easily identified by its dark green, leathery leaves variegated with white along the veins.
C2. Parasynthetic, chiefly in the names of animals, esp. birds and mammals.
spotted-beaked adj. now rare
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1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 620 Spotted-beaked Duck, Anas Maculirostris.
1891 C. J. Maynard Butterflies New Eng. 30 Spotted Beaked Butterflies.
1935 N. L. Corkill Notes on Sudan Snakes (Sudan Government Museum) Aug. 18 Scaphiophis albopunctatus..the Spotted Beaked Snake.
spotted-bellied adj.
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1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 494 Spotted-bellied Barbet;..the plumage beneath rufous white, spotted with black.
1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 472 Spotted-bellied Tamatia [sc. a puffbird], Bucco Tamatia.
1993 Daily Mail (London) (Nexis) 7 Sept. 3 A survey shows that the distinctive spotted-bellied bird is in decline.
spotted-billed adj.
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1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 487 Spotted-billed Duck, Anas poecilorhyncha.
1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. ii. 134 Spotted-billed Wigeon.
2003 Rough Guide S. India (ed. 3) 488 The swamps host spotted billed pelicans and around ten thousand flamingos.
spotted-breasted adj.
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1797 G. Humphreys Museum Calonnianum 78 Spotted-breasted Thrush.
1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 223 Spotted-breasted Creeper.
2005 C. Lever Naturalised Birds of World 265/2 Spotted-breasted Orioles are established in Palm Beach.
spotted-eared adj.
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1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VI. 72 Spotted-eared Owl, Strix maculosa.
1907 F. Lauer Dalmatian 35 When you get a good spotted eared dog he is usually very lightly spotted over the body.
2004 D. M. Bird Bird Almanac 337/2 Spotted Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus argus.
spotted-leaved adj.
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1751 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. II. 553 The spotted-leaved Melilot.
1909 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 2 Sept. 215/2 Less rarely one finds the small, spreading, spotted-leaved spurge.
2004 B. Powning Hatbox Lett. xx. 348 She can smell the damp soil, cooled by the dense bed of violets, spotted-leaved lungwort, white-veined hostas.
spotted-necked adj.
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1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 772 Spotted Necked Humming Bird.
1894 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. II. 97 The spotted-necked otter (Lutra maculicollis).
2005 C. Lever Naturalised Birds of World 112/1 Spotted-necked Doves..were first introduced from eastern China to California in the early twentieth century.
spotted-tailed adj.
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1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 106 Spotted-tailed Hawk;..on each tail-feather..are three white spots.
1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. i. 196 Spotted-Tailed Hobby.
1901 R. Lydekker Libr. Nat. Hist. III. xxxvii. 1443 The largest is the spotted-tailed dasyure.
2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 Dec. 4/2 The search is on for..the little-known and rarely-sighted spotted-tailed tiger quoll.
spotted-winged adj.
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1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. i. 71 The other species of the Hemerobius [sc. a lacewing] are,..The white and spotted-winged Hemerobius, [etc.].
1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 68 Spotted-winged Falcon.
1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 44 The parasites of human malaria have been found only in spotted-winged mosquitoes.
2002 B. Grewal et al. Photogr. Guide Birds India 481 Spotted-winged Stare.
C3. Other compounds. See also Spotted Dick n., spotted dog n.† spotted stem n. Obsolete a cylindrical fossil (classified in the form genus Stigmaria) bearing a regular pattern of circular or oval depressions, found in coal deposits of the Carboniferous period and identified as the root or underground portion of a large extinct plant of the division Lycopodiophyta (related to modern clubmosses).
spotted fever n. any of various febrile diseases characterized by the appearance of (esp. petechial or purpuric) spots on the skin, as meningococcal meningitis and typhus; (now) spec. any of a group of tick-borne diseases caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia (see also Rocky Mountain spotted fever n. at Rocky Mountains n. Compounds 2b).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > spotted fever
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
spotted pestilence1783
spotted sickness1899
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > other eruptive diseases
gutta rosaceac1400
spotted death1623
spotted fever1623
horse-pox1656
flock-pox1672
hog pox1676
spotted pestilence1783
salt rheum1809
molluscum1813
molluscum contagiosum1817
grease-pox1822
horn-pox1822
date fever1836
glass-pock1858
molluscum sebaceum1866
verruga1873
furunculosis1886
gutta rubea1886
flannel rash1888
vaccinide1889
rubeoloid1893
pox1897
veld sores1898
spotted sickness1899
sweat-rash1899
synanthema1899
sporotrichosis1908
alastrim1911
pseudoxanthoma elasticum1933
monkeypox1960
scleromyxœdema1964
yusho1969
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain > meningitis
spotted fever1623
water stroke1821
meningitis1824
cerebro-spinal fever or meningitis1901
choriomeningitis1934
1623Spotted or purple feaver [see sense 4].
1625 R. Milton Londons Miserie 11 Those that from vs, this sicknesse did deuide, Had caught a spotted feuer, and so dyde.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. lv. 147 The Spotted Feaver, is a continual malignant burning Feaver [etc.].
1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 344 The first [class] comprehends those of a true spotted-fever, the second those of a spurious one.
1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 ii. 4/1 Her Majesty's illness, which was a most malignant spotted fever, baffled every endeavour.
1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) II. 232 While from the purple or flea-bite spots,..this variety has been very generally treated of at home, under the name of Spotted Fever.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 667 Petechiæ were so common and so abundant in the earlier American Epidemics that the name ‘spotted fever’ was applied to the disease.
1902 L. B. Wilson & W. M. Chowning in First Biennial Rep. Montana State Board of Health 27 Enough was accomplished to warrant the formation of a working hypothesis..that the so-called ‘Spotted Fever’ is due to the presence in the patient's blood of the above mentioned haematozoan..; and that the parasite is conveyed to man through the bite of a tick.
1903 U.S. Hygienic Lab. Bull. 14 7 I have suggested as a name for the disease ‘Tick Fever’, as there are already two diseases sometimes called ‘spotted fever’.
2016 J. S. Dumler & M. E. Reller in Nelson Textbk. Pediatrics (ed. 20) ccxxviii. 1497/2 The list of pathogens and potential pathogens in the spotted fever group has expanded dramatically in recent years.
spotted metal n. a mixture of lead and tin (typically between 40% and 60% tin) having a characteristic mottled appearance, used for organ pipes.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other alloys of tin and lead
silver lead1601
calin1751
pipe metal1756
spotted metal1850
Wood1860
lead-tin1889
1850 Ecclesiologist 10 377 Pipes look exceedingly well when left in the natural colour of the metal, which in this case should be of silver-tin, or spotted metal.
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) iv. 22 A mixture is often used [for organ pipes] called ‘Spotted Metal’, from the surface being covered with spots, or mottled.
1988 Organbuilder May 5/2 Plain metal..became general for all internal pipework except reed resonators (which were of spotted metal at about 50%).
2008 N. Lee Orr Dudley Buck iii. 42 The pipes in the central section were of unpainted spotted metal.
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1844 G. A. Mantell Medals of Creation I. vi. 139 This extended notice of the structure of the Sigillariæ, will materially assist in the illustration of the nature of an equally common vegetable fossil, known in every coal-mine by the name of spotted-stem, or Stigmaria.
spotted wilt n. a virus disease of herbaceous plants, esp. tomatoes, in which it causes curling and necrotic spotting of the leaves.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > viral diseases
rosette disease1891
mosaic disease1894
mosaic1900
bunchy top1919
spotted wilt1919
streak disease1923
streak1930
streak virus1930
kromnek disease1932
wound-tumour disease1945
exocortis1948
1919 C. C. Brittlebank in Jrnl. Dept. Agric. Victoria 17 231 It is well to have a common name for every tomato disease, and I propose that of ‘Spotted Wilt’ for this latest one, from the spotting and subsequent wilting of the attacked plants.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. June 587/1 Iceland poppies should be inspected regularly from now on for symptoms of the virus disease known as spotted wilt.
1979 Ann. Appl. Biol. 93 173 Chlorotic ring~spots.., leaf specking, terminal bud necrosis,..and severe stunting of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) were shown to be caused by tomato spotted wilt virus.
2011 Southeast Farm Press (Nexis) 28 Oct. A tactic to limit tomato spotted wilt infections has had the side effect of latening the flue-cured crop in Georgia.
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