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Meanings of mottle in English

Spanish
manchar

Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained.

        manchar

        Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.

              Usage of mottle in English
              1
              Let God make His sunsets: I will mottle my little fading cloud.
              Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
              2
              What is the cause and cure of mottle leaf of citrus trees?
              One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
              3
              I'm talking about survival,' Waverley said, his cheeks beginning to mottle.
              Death Trance
              4
              The sewage-associated microbial indicators HF183 and pepper mild mottle virus were detected frequently.
              Pubmed
              5
              The worm-blue mottle of his shoulder, bowlined red from nipple back across to spine?
              Voice of the Fire
              6
              We'd talked until the fire had burned itself into a glowy mottle of newspaper.
              The Girls
              7
              Gangs of buffalo, herds of antelope, and droves of wild horses, mottle the far vistas.
              The Scalp Hunters
              8
              His face had the mottle of the habitual drinker.
              Priest
              9
              A livid tint began to mottle his face.
              The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
              10
              Woodward's face had begun to mottle with red.
              Speaks the Nightbird
              11
              His face began to mottle with his anger.
              Skin Trade
              12
              She checked occasionally to the west for rain clouds, because changes in humidity would mottle the work.
              Serena
              13
              The colour rose to the surface of his face, a fine network of capillaries revealing an ugly mottle.
              Book of lost threads
              14
              Ree smiled and reached to pinch Ned's little cheek but recoiled from his demanding mottle-faced squalling and dropped her hand.
              Winter’s Bone
              15
              Seeds can also carry cucumber green mottle mosaic virus, which has caused huge crop losses for fruit farmers in Australia already.
              News.com.au
              16
              The virus could be transmitted to several test plants but not to Perilla frutesence, the host plant of Perilla mottle virus.
              Pubmed
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              Translations for mottle
              Spanish
              manchar
              Mottle through the time