Definitions
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- adjective having dark spots
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Examples
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A dozen brown moths as big as small kites were clinging flat to the ceiling, their dark-spotted wings outstretched.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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A dozen brown moths as big as small kites were clinging flat to the ceiling, their dark-spotted wings outstretched.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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I hoped that the reduced amount of sugar in the chutney would mean more green, but the recipe called for brown sugar, and currants, so the result was a dark-spotted pale olive preserve.
Niagara Grape Conserve: It's Not Easy Being Green Lindy 2005
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He speared a dark-spotted trout, and soon half a dozen.
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Blake had fallen back on his elbows, and in the curve of his neck and right shoulder I could just see, though so near, the dark-spotted body of the panther.
Adventures in Many Lands Various
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The scenery, the perpetual stone fences, (some venerable old fellows, dark-spotted with lichens) the many fine locust-treesthe runs of brawling water, often over descents of rockthese, and lots else.
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_Leaves: _ On long petioles, commonly compounded of 3, but sometimes of 4 to 11 oval or oblong leaflets, marked with white crescent, often dark-spotted near centre; stipules egg-shaped, sharply pointed, strongly veined, more than
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Dodo nearly stepped upon a couple of greenish, dark-spotted eggs, that were nearly as large as a Hen's.
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870
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They wear much plainer clothes than the Bluebirds and Robins, on their olive or russet-brown backs and light-tinted, dark-spotted breasts, but have the most beautiful voices in all
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870
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The dark-spotted leaves of the dog-tooth violet begin to show.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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