mottle

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
2. noun A distinguishing blotch of colour.
3. noun A mottled or spotted pattern.

   The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants.

4. noun Any of several species of genus Logania of butterflies, found from Burma to the Philippines and New Guinea.

Similar words

dapple blotch streak cloud chlorotic splotch blot blend punctulate smear

Often followed by

virus and of is the mosaic leaf in on

Word family

mottled mottler mottlers mottles mottling