Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Minutely punctate; studded with very small pits or dots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Marked with small spots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Marked with small
spots orpunctures - verb To mark with small spots or punctures
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Examples
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_Flowering glumes_ are broadly ovate or suborbicular, mucronulate, punctulate, with the lateral nerves equidistant from the margins and the median nerve, and produced far up towards the median nerve; palea is broad, shorter than its glume, deciduous with it, and with winged and scabrid keels.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Logurr, Siluridae, 3 to 4 faint punctulate longish lines.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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3 "" A sombre looking Gudgeon-like fish, back blackish, sides yellowish, punctulate with groups of blackish spots.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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