Red Spot
nounAstronomy.
a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
Origin of Red Spot
1First recorded in 1875–80
- Also called Great Red Spot.
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How to use Red Spot in a sentence
In spite of the water which had been thrown on in bucketsful, great red spots covered the floor.
Marguerite de Valois | Alexandre Dumas
British Dictionary definitions for Red Spot
Red Spot
noun
See Great Red Spot
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