mock sun vs maculation

mock sun and maculation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mock sun	Yes	No	No	No
maculation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, maculation is a hypernym of mock sun; that is, maculation is a word with a broader meaning than mock sun:

mock sun: a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals
maculation: a small contrasting part of something

Other hypernyms of mock sun include dapple, fleck, patch, speckle, spot.

mock sun (noun)	maculation (noun)
a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals	the act of spotting or staining something
	a small contrasting part of something