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noun
1.
a large, irregular spot or blot.
2.
Plant Pathology.
a.
a diseased, discolored spot or area on a plant.
b.
a disease so characterized, usually accompanied by cankers and lesions.
3.
a skin eruption; blemish.
verb (used with object)
4.
to mark with blotches; blot, spot, or blur: The floor of the forest was blotched with cool, dark moss.
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Blotched
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
adjective
5.
Textiles. of or pertaining to blotch printing, or to the colored ground produced by this process.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
blotch
c.1600, perhaps a blend of blot and botch or patch.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
blotch  (blŏch) Pronunciation Key
Any of several plant diseases caused by fungi and resulting in brown or black dead areas on leaves or fruit. |
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