Mottled

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Spotted or blotched with different shades or colors.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Colored in patches; spotted
  • v. simple past of mottle
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Spotted; variegated; marked with blotches of color, of unequal intensity, passing insensibly into one another.
  • Specifically
  • In entomology, marked with irregular spots, generally formed of hairs of a different color from the ground; having two or more colors irregularly mingled in spots, but not running into one another.
  • In metallurgy, an epithet noting the appearance of pig-iron when in a stage intermediate between the stages designated as the white and the gray.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having spots or patches of color
  • Equivalent
    patterned   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Verb Stem
    mottle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bottled    throttled    wattled   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    glossiest    half-devoured    many    churned-up    hard-baked    stickiest    insulate    pimpled    two-quart    bone-white