| 单词 | mottled green |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmottled green C1. Modifying colour words to form adjectives and nouns, as mottled brown, mottled green, etc. ΚΠ 1835 R. Mant Brit. Months I. iv. 127 The trembling Aspen's bough Shows its long drops of scaly down, White, but with rings of mottled brown. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iv. 84 When we see leaf-eating insects green, and bark-feeders mottled-grey..we must believe that these tints are of service to these..insects in preserving them from danger. 1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 330 The leaves are..pale green when fresh, mottled-brown when dry. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xiii. 205 The mottled blue Balzac lay naked in the sun. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs iii. 60 The normal ‘zebra’ pattern of dark transverse stripes displayed when swimming can be changed to a pale mottled brown and grey when lurking over a sandy bottom. 1992 Chicago Jan. 76/1 The mottled-gray limestone exterior of the Second Presbyterian Church..is woefully earthbound. < as lemmas |
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