Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun facula

2 senses of facula

Sense 1
facula -- (a bright spot on a planet)
       => spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation -- (a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red")

Sense 2
facula -- (a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots)
       => spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation -- (a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red")