Word Finder - blotch

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An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

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An irregularly shaped area.

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Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.

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Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.

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A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.

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A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.

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To mark with blotches.

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To develop blotches, to become blotchy.

The handprint was a bright red blotch on his pale face as he stared down at her.

Both dorsal fins have a dark blotch at the rear.

The M. graminicola fungus causes the septoria tritici leaf blotch disease, the primary threat to wheat cultivation in Europe.

Symptoms often include a red blotch or a circular rash several centimeters across in the bite area.

The most damaging wheat disease in Europe is leaf blotch, which causes the loss of millions of tons of grain worldwide each year.

In breeding coloration the male fish has a dark blotch at the rear of the first dorsal fin.

This method often causes the color to look like a large blotch as the curls loosen up after drying.

Cultivated forms of this, with exquisite shades of colour and without any blotch at the base of the petals, are known as Shirley poppies.

Net blotch of barley The higher than expected levels of net blotch of barley The higher than expected levels of net blotch on some crops of cv.

The data show that symptoms of glume blotch (Stagonospora nodorum) were extremely common in the 1970s but are now rare.

The flowers, upon long slender stems, are red copper-colored or orange, with a deep maroon blotch in the centre, and a scent of Lily-of-the-Valley.

If you've ever been looking at a white computer screen or staring at the sky, and you've noticed an odd semi-transparent "blotch" or object floating across your vision, then you may be experiencing an eye condition known as "floaters."

Both, like the majority of herrings, are greenish on the back and silvery on the sides, but they are distinguished from the other European species Clupea by the presence of a large blackish blotch behind the gill-opening, which is succeeded by a series of several other similar spots along the middle of the side of the body.

It flowers in February and March, the flowers, which have an exceptional expanse, being of lavender-blue color, and characterised by a large triangular dark velvety-blue blotch on the falls.

The flowers are large, the standards white, pencilled and spotted with purple or violet, while the falls are veined with dark purple or purple-black on a yellowish ground, with a conspicuous dark blotch in the centre.

The spikes usually bear four or five flowers, white or nearly so, with large yellow blotch on the fall, and some reach nearly 6 feet in height, strong clumps producing four or five.

A brilliant annual, about 2 feet high, like the common field Poppy, but of a darker red, and with a jet black blotch at the base of each petal conspicuous both inside and out, making masses of this plant showy in early summer.

The big dark blotch might really be the watchman's hut or it might be a cavern leading to the very depths of the earth.

Elwesii, a native of the Levant, with large flowers, the three inner segments of which have a much larger and more conspicuous green blotch than the commoner kinds.