SPECK
\spˈɛk], \spˈɛk], \s_p_ˈɛ_k]\
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a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
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a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
By Princeton University
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a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
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a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
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A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
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A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
By Oddity Software
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).