mottle

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - 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
• Hypernyms:
color, colour, coloring, colouring

II - verb

1. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
streak, blotch
• Derivationally related forms:
blotch (for: blotch), streak (for: streak), mottling
• Hypernyms:
color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize,
colour, color in, colour in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
• Syn:
dapple, cloud
• Derivationally related forms:
dapple (for: dapple), mottling
• Hypernyms:
spot
• Hyponyms:
harlequin, stipple, speckle
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dapple, cloud, streak, blotch