mottle
- noun
- /ˈmɒtəl/
:
moteado
- 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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6.9
A pattern of spots or patches with different colors
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8.6
Different colours in parts of a plant, like leaves
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.