mottle
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- noun
- /ˈmɒtəl/
- C.T. has crossed his arms casually; their triceps' flesh is webbed with mottle in the air-conditioned sunlight.
- mottle virus
- pod mottle
- bean pod mottle
Examples
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Provider also had resistance to the common bean mosaic virus and others, including the pod mottle virus, and to powdery mildew.
Academic text (1994) -
A crippling infection known as the feathery mottle virus can reduce sweet potato yields by 80 percent.
Academic text (2003) -
Transparent color telling the live mottle of peach.
Fiction book (1994) -
This pest transmits the bean pod mottle virus to healthy plants.
Academic text (2002) -
That enabled Kenyan investigators to engineer a sweet potato that resists the feathery mottle virus.
Academic text (2003) -
Beneath 132 cm, to a depth of 178 cm, dark grayish brown clay with light olive brown mottles is common.
Academic text (1998) -
Below that, to a depth of 203 cm, the soil is light yellowish-brown silty clay with fine-textured, light gray mottles.
Academic text (1998) -
One geminivirus, tomato mottle, has appeared in every major tomato-producing region of Florida, say Ernest Hiebert and Jane Polston, who are at the University of Florida.
Academic text (1997) -
But in recent years, the bean pod mottle virus has emerged as a new pathogen of soybeans in Ohio, along with increased populations of its carrier, the bean leaf beetle.
Academic text (2005) -
The artist created a beautiful painting with a mottle of vibrant colors that captured the light.
Synonyms
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Different colours in parts of a plant, like leaves
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A pattern of spots or patches with different colors
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An uneven quality or appearance with spots and weak parts
How Spotted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mottle comes from an old word mot, like mote, meaning 'speck' or 'small spot'. That's why a mottle is a pattern of small spots or patches on a surface.