Mud and Stain

Mud

Mud noun - Water soaked soil; soft wet earth.

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Stain and mud are semantically related in thing topic. In some cases you can use "Stain" instead a noun "Mud", when it comes to topics like soil.

Stain noun - A mark of guilt or disgrace.

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Mud and stain are semantically related in soil topic. Sometimes you can use "Mud" instead a noun "Stain".

Nearby Words: stained, stainless, staining

old	old mud	old stain
good	good mud	good stain
fresh	fresh mud	fresh stain
real	real mud	real stain
Other adjectives: blue, black, brown, broken, wet, greasy, sticky, red.

Rustproof Blood Blood stains stay red to let the audience know that they're blood, as opposed to other things that stain brown, such as mud, chocolate or feces.

Source: Rule of Perception
Subverted in an episode of Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat where Sagwa's younger sister Sheegwa is thought to be a princess because of a star-shaped birthmark on her body, but at the end of the episode the "birthmark" is accidentally washed off and is revealed to be just a stain of mud.

Source: Birthmark of Destiny
This is probably done as a bit of visual shorthand, to let the audience (and other characters) know that the stains in question are actually blood, as opposed to other things that stain brown, such as mud, chocolate or feces.

Source: Rustproof Blood

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