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FACULA (faculae)

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Irregular inflected form: faculae  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does facula mean? 

FACULA (noun)
  The noun FACULA has 2 senses:

1. a bright spot on a planetplay

2. a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspotsplay

  Familiarity information: FACULA used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FACULA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A bright spot on a planet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("facula" is a kind of...):

dapple; fleck; maculation; patch; speckle; spot (a small contrasting part of something)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

facula; solar facula

Hypernyms ("facula" is a kind of...):

dapple; fleck; maculation; patch; speckle; spot (a small contrasting part of something)


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