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Yellow spot

noun

Any of several fungous or viral diseases characterized by yellow spotting on the leaves.

A small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision. Synonyms: macula, macula lutea, macular area.

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"Yellow spot" Quotes from Famous Books

... all quickly disappeared from sight, as though they had melted in the gray dampness. One could see neither the shore nor anything else solid; the landing bridge rocked from the commotion caused by the steamer; above it the yellow spot of the lantern was swaying; the noise of the footsteps and the bustle ...

— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky

... circles. She saw her pale yellow glove become darker and darker, and then filling slowly with water, and turning over once, as in its death- agony, sink down gradually with a spiral movement to the green depths of the stream. Lida strained her eyes to mark its descent, but the yellow spot grew ever smaller and more indistinct, and at last disappeared. All that met her gaze was the smooth, dark surface of ...

— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef

... more pertinent is the fact that the effects of retinal fatigue are producible by dream-images. The physiologist Gruithuisen had a dream, in which the principal feature was a violet flame, and which left behind it, after waking, for an appreciable duration, a complementary image of a yellow spot.[84] ...

— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully

... passed through villages—the headlights showed stone hovels once or twice—but no lights appeared. It was midnight before they saw a moving yellow spot of brightness with a glare as of fire upon steam above it. There were other small lights in a row behind it, and they saw that ...

— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... ledge with a good deal of skin peeled from various parts of my person. The first object my eye fell upon as I hoisted myself above the four-foot shelf was a dull, yellow spot on the gray rock, near enough so that I could lean forward and touch it with my fingers. A two-inch circle of the real thing—I'd seen enough gold in the raw to know it without any acid test—hammered into the coarse sandstone. I pried it up with the blade of my knife and looked it ...

— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair