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mottlement

mottlement noun: a mottled pattern.

Noun

mottlement (countable and uncountable, plural mottlements)

  1. A mottled pattern.
    • Through the transparent shell dark mottlements were visible, as if it had eaten lumps of earth.1961, Rachel Peden, Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living, page 238

Forms of mottlement

pluralmottlements

Origin of mottlement

From mottle + -ment.

Questions about mottlement

What does mottlement mean?
Mottlement means a mottled pattern.
What part of speech is mottlement?
Mottlement is a noun.
What is the plural of mottlement?
The plural of mottlement is mottlements.

Words near mottlement in the dictionary

  1. mottled owls
  2. mottled rustic
  3. mottled umber
  4. mottled umbers
  5. mottledness
  6. mottlement
  7. mottlements
  8. mottler
  9. mottlers
  10. mottles
  11. Mottley

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