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Meanings of mottled in English

Marked with spots of a different colour.

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Usage of mottled in English
1
Above the line of the beard the skin was mottled and puffy.
The Street Called Straight
2
His muscles were beginning to bulge; his skin produced mottled, hairy patches.
The hunchback assignments
3
Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good-yearof forebodings!
Leaves of Grass
4
Ahmoses reached a mottled hand into his robes, and produced a scroll.
The heretic queen
5
He said the whale's mottled skin suggested it was in poor health.
News.com.au
6
Those snakes with the mottled yellow and brown backs are water moccasins.
Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise; or, The Dash for Dixie
7
Speckled or mottled Barbs are esteemed the most common of all pigeons.
The Book of Household Management
8
Their colours are green, variously tinted and mottled with red or purple.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
9
The ripe seeds are dull-white or greenish-white, mottled and clouded with purple.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America / Containing Full Des...
10
Moving away, staff in his mottled hand, walking, he broke into song.
To Die in Italbar
11
A big-boned mottled horse, once evidently a beauty, was between the shafts.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
12
Her hands where they gripped the purse were mottled, trembling with tension.
The Lunatic Cafe
13
A weak acid bath leaves an ugly mottled surface on brass work.
On Laboratory Arts
14
All in all, the 1971 Masters was a rather uneven, mottled tournament.
The new yorker
15
Down here spiders still lived, disturbingly big ones with mottled gray bodies.
The gunslinger
16
Even his robe was banded and mottled, albeit in silk and jewels.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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