mottled
Speech parts
1. mottled - Adjective
2. mottled - Verb
4. mottled - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Mottle
Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood.
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Examples
Although not always distinctively green, the chromel wire will develop a mottled silvery skin and become magnetic.
Straddling the counties of Derry and Tyrone, the Sperrins weave a mottled tapestry of mountains, bogland and inland tarns, as well as megalithic ruins and prehistoric curiosities.
Newborn larva are blackish and turn brown to tan as they grow, mottled with black.
However, each feed can deliver a large amount of energy; both sooty shearwater and mottled petrel chicks have been recorded to double their weight in a single night, probably when fed by both parents.
It isn’t quite as good in low light as the main f/1.7 snapper, producing slightly grainier pictures, but it’s a lot better than the OnePlus 5’s telephoto shooter which produces more mottled, noisier snaps in marginal light.
Gull eggs are large, bigger than a goose egg, and come in a mottled camouflage pattern.