Marked or decorated with spots.

Of animals, their feathers, skins, etc.: Dappled, pied, spotted.

Marked with roundish spots, patches, or blotches of a different colour or shade; spotted, speckled.

Spotted; = macular, adj.

Of a bird or mammal: having speckled plumage or fur; speckled, spotted. Obsolete.

Of colours: Varied, variegated. Also of cloth or an animal in respect of colour. Obsolete.

Spotted, speckled (chiefly of cattle); also red-garled.

Of cattle, etc., or their colour: Mottled, dappled; parti-coloured.

Formerly gen.: (of an animal) spotted, speckled, dappled. Now only: spec. (of a deer) having pale fawn fur with white spots (also in extended…

Frequently Botany and Pathology. Veined, mottled, dappled, or pied. Also with with.

Of a dog: Having small markings or spots as if bitten by ticks: cf. tick spot n. at tick, n.1 compounds 2; hence of birds, etc.: spotted, dotted.

Vari-coloured, variegated; esp. in the names of birds or animals.

Marked with maculae; spotted.