lucule

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Diminutive from Latin lux, lucis (light).

Noun[edit]

lucule (plural lucules)

  1. (astronomy) A spot or fleck on the sun that is brighter than the surrounding surface.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lucule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)