Meaning of maculiferous | Babel Free

Definitions

Having maculae or spots.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“[…] combined with the earth's rotation on the axis, so the maculiferous belts of the sun may owe⟳ their origin to a greater equatorial efflux of heat, combined with the axial rotation of the luminary.”

“They place⟳ in a very clear and unmistakable light⟳ the anticipation in point⟳ of time of the occurrence of the maximum of maculiferous excitement before the middle of the total period which the present⟳ rapidly increasing number⟳ of spots actually in progress⟳ seems to promise⟳ fully to confirm⟳ for the period (1866·6-1877·7); and here I cannot help⟳ observing that although the lengths of the three periods here embraced vary⟳ between 9·81 and 12·68 years, yet the mean⟳ of the three is almost exactly 11·1, and this agrees with the whole course of the solar history since 1800, which was a year of maximum.”

“There on the Spanish Steps / sunlight had long since gone, / leaving maculiferous American ladies”

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