Speckled Definition

spĕkəld
adjective
Dotted or covered with speckles, especially flecked with small spots of contrasting color.
American Heritage Medicine

Marked with dots.

The bird's eggs were speckled as camouflage.
Wiktionary

Sporadically and irregularly marked.

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Speckled Sentence Examples

  • The valley was speckled with healthy Angus cattle.

  • Burke, in a memorable passage of a memorable speech, has described this "chequered and speckled" administration with great humour, speaking of it as "indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on."

  • The speckled trout thrives in many of the streams.

  • The Radnor is short-limbed and low-set with speckled face and legs.

  • The pito is a brown speckled creeper which flutters about the rocks.

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