marbled, marbleized, marbleised
(adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble; “marbleized pink skin”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
marbled (comparative more marbled, superlative most marbled)
Composed of marble; having a marble exterior.
Having marbling.
Resembling marble.
(meat) Interlaced with fat.
marbled
simple past tense and past participle of marble
• blarmed, rambled
Source: Wiktionary
Mar"bled, a.
1. Made of, or faced with, marble. [Obs.] "The marbled mansion." Shak.
2. Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. "Marbled paper." Boyle.
3. (zoöl.)
Definition: Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.
Mar"ble, n. Etym: [OE. marbel, marbre, F. marbre, L. marmor, fr. Gr. Marmoreal.]
1. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
Note: Breccia marble consists of limestone fragments cemented together.
– Ruin marble, when polished, shows forms resembling ruins, due to disseminated iron oxide.
– Shell marble contains fossil shells.
– Statuary marble is a pure, white, fine-grained kind, including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble. If coarsely granular it is called saccharoidal.
2. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
3. A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds; when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means, hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as, marble-breasted, marble- faced, marble-hearted.
Mar"ble, a.
1. Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.
2. Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
Mar"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marbling.] Etym: [Cf. F. marbrer. See Marble, n.]
Definition: To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 January 2025
(noun) a severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint John’s wort
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
