irrorate

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  1. To moisten with dew.
  2. In zoology, dotted with white or light color, as if with dewdrops; in entomology, marked with minute dots of color: said especially of the wings of lepidopters when numerous single scales differ from the ground color.

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  1. from Latin irroratus, inroratus, past participle of irrorare, inrorare, wet with dew (later Italian inrorare, irrorare = Portuguese irrorar), from in, upon, + rorare, distil dew, from ros (ror-), dew.
  2. from Latin irroratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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