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Synonyms for mottled

having spots or patches of color

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Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
It lives on the bare sand near the sea coast, and from its mottled colour, the brownish scales being speckled with white, yellowish red, and dirty blue, can hardly be distinguished from the surrounding surface.
Ever her gaze wandered back to the chickens, to the mottled shade under the trees, to the warm wall of the barn, to the sleepy horse with its ever recurrent whisk of tail
Jean Pied-du-Port the country was mottled with the white tents of Gascons, Aquitanians and English, all eager for the advance.
Walking along the Strand, afterwards, and observing a hard mottled substance in the window of a ham and beef shop, which resembled marble, but was labelled 'Mock Turtle', I went in and bought a slab of it, which I have since seen reason to believe would have sufficed for fifteen people.
All holes successfully tested the Cardiac Creek Zone with excellent recovery of thick intervals of sphalerite-galena-barite mineralization; including highly mottled textures which at Cardiac Creek indicate higher than typical zinc grades
IN ADULTS Seek medical help urgently if you (or another adult) develop any of these signs: | Slurred speech or confusion; | Extreme shivering or muscle pain; | Passing no urine (in a day); | Severe breathlessness; | It feels like you're going to die; | Skin is mottled or discoloured.
Added bonuses include its attractive bark - which is mottled light grey and pale pink - and good autumnal leaf colour.
If you think you have it, call 999 and ask, "Could it be sepsis?" Symptoms can include slurred speech or confusion, extreme shivering or muscle pain, passing no urine in a day, severe breathlessness, feeling you might die, skin mottled or discoloured.
This study is the first to assess the rate at which mallard and mottled ducks are combining into hybrids in the western Gulf of Mexico region of the United States.
Venous blood gas, electrolyte, and hematologic analytes of the mottled duck, Anas fulvigula.
They started off beautifully healthy this year, but have now developed mottled leaves.
We observed an increased relative abundance of mottled sculpin, Cottus bairdii, upstream from a renovated road-stream crossing during 2006, the first sampling season after stream restoration and habitat reconnection; a perched double-pipe culvert, essentially impassable to fish, was replaced with an open-bottom bridge during autumn 2005 (DeBoer, 2008).
This cultivar is tall, with multiple trunks that are mottled with deep mahogany, and the flowers, of course, are white.