Crossword-Solution: MOTTLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mottle | v. t. | To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. |
| Mottle | n. | A mottled appearance. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MOTTLE | anagram | MELOTT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with MOTTLE (5)
Under our Southern sun, the vegetation of cemeteries seems to spring into being spontaneously--to leap all suddenly into luxuriant life! Microscopic mossy growths had begun to mottle the slab that closed her in;--over its face some singular creeper was crawling, planting tiny reptile-feet into the chiselled letters of the inscription; and from the moist soil below speckled euphorbias were growing up to her,--and morning glories,--and beautiful green tangled things of which he did not know the name.
But, of course, as it is, I am naturally all the more content.” His eldest boy, having won the Mottle Scholarship, was going up to Cambridge in the Autumn.
What is the cause and cure of mottle leaf of citrus trees? There are apparently a number of causes of this trouble, all more or less obscure and hard to overcome.
The presence of a nematode or eel worm on the roots has found to be a cause of mottle leaf in many cases.
The fir woods are fine sauntering-grounds at almost any time of the year, but finest in autumn when the noble trees are hushed in the hazy light and drip with balsam; and the flying, whirling seeds, escaping from the ripe cones, mottle the air like flocks of butterflies.
Quotes with MOTTLE (1)
She will at least be decently clothed as she waits. Tomorrow I shall find her a brush and powder and whatever else a woman of her dignity requires.” Fin rolled her eyes. “Is ‘dignity’ what you call it?” Jeannot offered her his hand. Fin took it and pulled herself up from the deck. She was barefoot and her pants and shirt were stained with everything from blood to oakum to lampblack. She stretched her shirt out between her hands and considered its mottle of stains. “I’m not di…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1962–2020).