wingspot

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English

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Etymology

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From wing +‎ spot.

Noun

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wingspot (plural wingspots)

  1. A spot on a wing (as of a bird or butterfly).
    • 2007 June 26, Douglas H. Erwin, “Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift”, in New York Times[1]:
      Perhaps the most exciting area in evolution is in exploring how rewiring the circuitry of genes produces different arthropod appendages, or wingspots on butterflies.