verb
definition
To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
adjective
definition
Colored in patches; spotted
example
The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows.
Examples of mottled in a Sentence
Dustin's face was a mottled mess of emotions.
The wild stock is of an olive-green, mottled with dark brown above, and greenish-yellow beneath.
A mixed forest of deciduous and conifer trees formed a dense covering of mottled greens.
The wing-quills are brownish black, banded with mottled white, and those of the tail, except the middle pair, which are wholly greyish brown, are banded with mottled white at the base and the tip, but dark brown for the rest of their length.
If you like, you can add other colors to give it a mottled effect.
Ragging is much more versatile than sponging, as you don't get the mottled effect of the sponge.
There are, of course, many other varieties in which one gets flowers splashed and mottled with various colors.
The downy stems reach a height of 2 to 4 feet, and are mottled with purple.
The only other moths recorded this month were Winter Moths and a single Mottled umber at illuminated windows or security lights.
The underside of the hind wings is generally mottled green tho somewhat yellowish on the female.
Most blue whales are blue-grey and mottled with lighter spots but some appear yellowish underneath due to algae growing on them.
The young, as in all Limicolae, are at first clothed in down, so mottled in colour as closely to resemble the shingle to which, if they be not hatched upon it, they are almost immediately taken by their parents, and there, on the slightest alarm, they, squat close to elude observation.
Using a coarse sandpaper, lightly remove some of the paper, leaving a mottled wash with highlights.
The only other moths recorded this month were Winter Moths and a single Mottled Umber at illuminated windows or security lights.
The colors are mottled and run together.
A. virginicum is the Heart Snakeroot, its leaves thick and leathery, with the upper surface mottled with white.
Brachyglottis Repanda - A New Zealand shrub, with fine foliage, deeply toothed; of a deep green, mottled with dark purple on the upper side and silvery-white beneath.
Europe, attains a height of 2 to 3 feet; the leaves large; the stalks and stem of a fleshy color, deeply mottled with black.
It has mottled downy foliage, and small purplish flowers, in heads like the Hop, hence the name Hop-plant.
America. Its pale green leaves are mottled, and commonly dotted with purple and white.
The flowers are larger than those of any of the group, the falls mottled with white and rich lilac both on the claw and on the broad rounded blade.
Jalapa, a dense, round bush covered with flowers, nearly 3 feet high, the flowers about 1 inch across, white, rose, lilac, yellow, crimson and purple-striped, mottled, and selfs.
A variegated form is pretty, the foliage being mottled with white or faint pink.
It is free in flower when well established, and makes many crowns, with bold foliage of paler green, less mottled above, but covered beneath with reddish blotches.
Tetracyclines should normally not be used in children under the age of eight because some tetracyclines can be absorbed into the bones and teeth and give the teeth a mottled appearance.
The signs of sepsis may include fever, fussiness, feeding problems, breathing difficulties, pale or mottled skin, or drowsiness.
Another really fun additive is parol oil, which is used to give the surface of your candle a mottled appearance, like snowflakes or starbursts.
Pouring the wax when it's too cool will give your finished candle a mottled, frosty appearance, which is kind of nice if you do it on purpose.
Brown and gold candles are also lovely options, as are candles in mottled fall shades or autumn gradients.
The retro feel of this Retro Scribble wallet is due in large part to the slightly mottled white and brown coloring of the look.
Younger eagles have brown beaks and brown or mottled brown and white feathers on head and tail.
The wood is soft, white when first cut and turning to pale red; the knots are beautifully mottled.
Sasha.s face was a mottled mess that made him resemble Frankenstein.s monster, with newly sewn stitches holding together the edges of swollen red gashes.
He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.
The female, juvenile and male in eclipse plumage are very similar with their mottled browns and paler belly.
The enormous mottled maroon pterodactyl sadly turned its nose up at the rotting cherry gateau.
Another characteristic is that the leaf and flower-stems are beautifully mottled with purple and green, while in H. niger they are of a pale green.
At least 45 percent of subjects had improvements in mottled pigmentation.
Of the vegetable oils, in addition to cotton-seed and coco-nut, olive oil is the basis of soaps for calico printers and silk dyers; castor oil yields transparent soaps (under suitable treatment), whilst crude palm oil, with bone fat, is employed for making brown soap, and after bleaching it yields ordinary pale or mottled.
The frames into which hard soaps are ladled for cooling and solidification consist of rectangular boxes made of iron plates and bound and clamped together in a way that allows the sides to be removed when required; wooden frames are used in the case of mottled soaps.
This property is usually obtained by mixing soft and hard soaps, or, more rarely, by adding gum tragacanth to a hard soap. In the textile trades the wool scourer employs a neutral olive-oil soap, or, on account of its cheapness, a neutral curd or curd mottled brand; the cotton cleanser, on the other hand, uses an alkaline soap, but for cleaning printed cottons a neutral olive-oil curd soap is used, for, in this case, free alkali and resin are objectionable; olive-oil soap, free from caustic alkali, but often with sodium carbonate, is also used in cleansing silk fibres, although hard soaps free from resin are frequently employed for their cheapness.
The leaves are generally lance-shaped with a sharp apex and a spiny margin; but vary in colour from grey to bright green, and are sometimes striped or mottled.
Limestones and dolomites suitable for building purposes are obtained chiefly in Montgomery, Chester and Lancaster counties, and even these are generally rejected for ornamental work on account of their colour, which is usually bluish, grey or mottled.
The other breed, called the Cambridge, is much more variegated in colour, and some parts of the plumage have a bright metallic gloss, while the chicks are generally mottled with brownish grey.
P. officinalis, i ft., has prettily mottled leaves and blue flowers; P. sibirica is similar in character, but has broader leaves more distinctly mottled with white.
The colour of the grain varies greatly, being generally white, yellow, mottled red, or less commonly red.
The bark of the older stems is of a bright brown, mottled with grey, that of the young twigs is ash-coloured, and glandular and hairy.
The Triassic rocks are arranged in two groups, a lower, composed of conglomerates and sandstones, and an upper one consisting of red and mottled shales and marls with thin sandstones and nodular limestones.
While the female presents the usual inconspicuous mottled plumage of the same sex in most species of Anatinae, the male is one of the handsomest of his kind.
Its face and legs are mottled black and white, and its horns are strong.