Spotted or blotched with different shades or colors.
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Wavy grain combines with spiral, interlocked grain to produce a wrinkled, botchy figure known as mottle. The mottled figure may be scattered randomly (broken mottle), or appear as a regular checkerboard pattern (block mottle). Members of the mahogany family, koa, sapele, bubinga and African satinwood, most commonly exhibit mottled figure.
The dog's coat was mottled with brown, black and yellow spots.
The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
having spots or patches of color
Synonym: dappled
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