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/mˈɒtəl/
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VERB
- mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
NOUN
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an irregular arrangement of patches of color
it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green
How To Use mottle In A Sentence
- But it Hoolock Wu Wen-mei first half of yellow, white and the lower body more and more vertical profile, wing spot and more white, more mottled waist and tail-heavy.
- A mottled seal mother flops onto her fat belly, (What in the name...? THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
- Fiery red blossoms float amongst olive green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon.
- He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle.
- As he got close to the woman, he could see only her face and her hair, and they were mottled with mud.
- The female is a mottled brown. Times, Sunday Times
- At least two other moths, the mottled umber moth (Erannis. defoliaria), and the March moth (Alsophila aescularia) have wingless females.
- Of the nashi grown in New Zealand, 95 percent are Hosui, although smooth-skinned, greenish-yellow Nijisseiki and the mottled Kosui also make excellent eating.
- The results include inky splodges of paint like sea spray and mottled fields of blue. This week's new exhibitions
- The mottled look of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is the result of differences in temperature and density.
