liturate

English

Etymology

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”).

Adjective

liturate (comparative more liturate, superlative most liturate)

1. (zoology) Having indistinct spots, paler at the margins.

   liturate thorax

2. (botany) Spotted, as if from abrasions of the surface.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “liturate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• rutilate, tertulia