mottle
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an irregular arrangement of patches of color
it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green
Types & categories
- color hypernym
Sense 2 verb
mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
Types & categories
- color hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- mottling derivation
- maculation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | color |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mottling |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | streak |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blotch |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | color |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | mottling |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | maculation |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | spot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | harlequin |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | speckle |