nnoun.attributean irregular arrangement of patches of colorExamples:- it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green
Hypernyms:color coloring colour colouring
Inherited Hypernyms:mottlecolorvisual propertypropertyattributeabstractionentity
vverb.creationmark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stainedSynset:blotch streak
Derivationally Related Form:mottlingblotchstreak
Hypernyms:color color in colorise colorize colour colour in colourise colourize
Inherited Hypernyms:mottlecolorchange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.changecolour with streaks or blotches of different shadesSynset:cloud dapple
Derivationally Related Form:mottlingdapple
Hypernyms:spot
Inherited Hypernyms:mottlespotmarkchange
Direct Hyponyms:harlequinspecklestipple
Full Troponyms:harlequinstipple
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something