wingspot

English

Etymology

wing +‎ spot

Noun

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:
      Perhaps the most exciting area in evolution is in exploring how rewiring the circuitry of genes produces different arthropod appendages, or wingspots on butterflies.
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