fleck
f lek
- n a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- n a small contrasting part of something
a fleck of red - v make a spot or mark onto
- Even in powerful telescopes, it is visible only as a fleck of light.
- Yet this inert fleckstill unfamiliar to the vast majority of Americanshas astonishing powers that are already transforming society.
- Carrel placed a fleck of tissue from the heart of an unhatched chick in a glass flask with some nutritious pink fluid.