Usually means: Pattern of spots or blotches.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. mottle: Merriam-Webster
  2. mottle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mottle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mottle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mottle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mottle, mottle: Wordnik
  7. mottle: Wiktionary
  8. mottle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mottle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mottle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Mottle, mottle: Dictionary.com
  12. mottle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Mottle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Mottle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mottle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. mottle: Rhymezone
  17. mottle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mottle: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mottle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. mottle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mottle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mottle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mottle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mottle: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mottle: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mottle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mottle)

▸ verb:  To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
▸ noun:  (countable) A distinguishing blotch of colour.
▸ noun:  (countable, uncountable) A mottled or spotted pattern.

Similar:
blotch, dapple, streak, cloud, splotch, blot, blend, punctulate, smear, marble, more...

Opposite:
even, uniform, consistent

Types:
dappled, speckled, mottled, flecked, spotted, blotchy, blurred, more...

Phrases:
quantum mottle, mottle leaf, rusty mottle, Pepper mild mottle virus, wet mottle, more...

Adjectives:
quantum, chlorotic, mild, yellow, radiographic, green, systemic, faint, dark, rusty, severe

Colors:
    olive,     sage,     taupe,     maroon,     rust, more...
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Similar:
blotch, dapple, streak, cloud, splotch, blot, blend, punctulate, smear, marble, more...

Opposite:
even, uniform, consistent

Types:
dappled, speckled, mottled, flecked, spotted, blotchy, blurred, more...

Phrases:
quantum mottle, mottle leaf, rusty mottle, Pepper mild mottle virus, wet mottle, more...

Adjectives:
quantum, chlorotic, mild, yellow, radiographic, green, systemic, faint, dark, rusty, severe

Colors:
    olive,     sage,     taupe,     maroon,     rust, more...



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