dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled
(adjective) having a pattern of dots
Source: WordNet® 3.1
specked (comparative more specked, superlative most specked)
Having specks or spots, speckled.
Source: Wiktionary
Speck, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. spik blubber, AS. spic, D. spek, G. speck.]
Definition: The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
Speck, n. Etym: [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.]
1. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. "Gray sand, with black specks." Anson.
2. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money. Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean. Landor.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmæa) common in the Eastern United States.
Speck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Specked; p. pr. & vb. n. Specking.]
Definition: To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture. Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
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