ppl. a. Clearly defined or outlined, easy to distinguish or recognize.
1797. M. Baillie, Morb. Anat. (ed. 2), 71. Any well marked example of this disease.
1830. Whewell, Archit. Notes German Ch., 43. These arches have well-marked mouldings.
1855. Orr’s Circ. Sci., Irorg. Nat., 74. Shells … of large size, and well-marked forms.
1861. Paley, Æschylus (ed. 2), Supplices, 894, note. A play which has several well-marked resemblances to this.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., ix. 175. Even languages of so limited area as the Basque in the Pyrenees, have their well-marked dialectic forms.
1875. Huxley & Martin, Elem. Biol., 243. Each [cell] has a well-marked oval nucleus.
1886. Druce, Flora Oxf., 348. This well-marked plant occurs on wall-tops and dry banks.
