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At night, he could hear the mewling of a tribe of orange-spotted tabbies whose numbers seemed to be increasing by the day.
The New York Times's Lonely War Mnookin, Seth 2008
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She's since realized that Finn poses far more danger to fallen tree limbs and runaway squirrels than she does to her little orange-spotted self.
weeme Diary Entry weeme 2002
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A fish of some sort, with orange fins and a brownish and orange-spotted body, glided up to the top of the water and took an insect-a water spider perhaps-with only the slightest of ripples.
The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997
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He began, patiently, with her cylinder-shaped yellow-brown, orange-spotted caterpillar, on the purple passion flowers in our garden; he watched it change into a dark-brown chrysalis marked with a few pale spots; he saw emerge from this the red-robed lady herself, with her long fulvous forewings, and her shorter hind wings smocked with black velvet, and her under-frock flushed with pinkish orange and spangled with silver.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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The smaller orange-spotted wasp just alluded to indicated to me the location of her den by pausing suggestively in front of a tiny cairn.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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The Tokay Gecko, which has distinct orange-spotted, blue-grey skin, can grow up to 15.7 inches 40 centimeters in length.
NYDN Rss THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2011
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The Tokay Gecko, which has distinct orange-spotted, blue-grey skin, can grow up to 15.7 inches 40 centimeters in length.
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The Tokay Gecko, which has distinct orange-spotted, blue-grey skin, can grow up to 15.7 inches 40 centimeters in length.
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Locally, if coral reefs disappear, the numbers of commercially important fish such as the orange-spotted grouper, popularly known as hammour, will probably dwindle.
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Locally, if coral reefs disappear, the numbers of commercially important fish such as the orange-spotted grouper, popularly known as hammour, will probably dwindle.
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