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spotted

Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. The spotted panther.

(Science: medicine) Spotted fever, a name applied to various eruptive fevers, especially. To typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis.

(Science: botany) Spotted tree, an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); so called because its bark falls off in spots.