mottle

Plural: mottles

Noun

• 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"
• A distinguishing blotch of colour.
• A mottled or spotted pattern.

Verb

Verb Forms: mottled, mottling, mottles

• To mark with spots or streaks of different colors.
• mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
• colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
• To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

Examples

• The diverse tiles on the rack would MOTTLE the board with varied hues.
• The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants.

Synonyms

blotch, cloud, dapple, streak

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