liturate

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adjective

Being or having indistinct spots, paler at the margins.

“liturate thorax”

OriginLatin litūrātus →
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Meanings

adjectiveliturate (comparative more liturate, superlative most liturate)

comparative more liturate · superlative most liturate

  1. biologyBeing or having indistinct spots, paler at the margins.

    liturate thorax

    3 more examples

    [describing a moth, Megachyta lituralis, now Zanclognatha lituralis] Two black liturate spots on costa at inception

    1873, American Entomological Society, “Transactions of the American Entomological Society”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

    [the larva of a new species of moth] Darker areas liturate and transversely lined with black, the ground color green

    1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin

    [Describing Zotheca tranquila Grt.] Including III and extending to well ventrad of V a yellow stripe liturate with black.

    1956, Samuel Ebb Crumb, The Larvae of the Phalaenidae, page 203

Origin

  1. Latinlitūrātus
  2. Englishliturate

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”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

tertuliarutilate
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APA

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MLA

“liturate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/liturate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “liturate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/liturate.

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