Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having or resembling drops.
  • adjective Spotted as if by drops.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing drops or droplike masses, either solid or more or less liquid, often resembling nuclei.
  • In botany, spotted, as if by drops of something colored.
  • In zoology, having drop-shaped or guttiform spots.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Spotted, as if discolored by drops.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Shaped like, or resembling drops.
  • adjective Spotted.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin guttātus, speckled, from gutta, drop.]

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Examples

  • In guttate psoriasis, the second most common form of the disease, the patches are small and shaped like drops of water.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The genetically transferred condition manifests in five different forms: plaque, inverse, pustular, erythrodermic and guttate.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • There are five types: plaque, guttate, inverse, pustular and erythrodermic.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • Other types include guttate psoriasis, pustular psoriasis erythrodermic psoriasis, nail psoriasis

    Irish Blogs 2009

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