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spottedly

spottedly adverb: in spots, or occasional places; here and there.

Adverb

spottedly (not comparable)

  1. In spots, or occasional places; here and there.
    • However, the species was spottedly numerous in alfalfa.1960, Cooperative Economic Insect Report, page 266
    • The study area is topographically well-defined and within it non-commercial farms of very small sizes are distributed spottedly.1972, P. J. den Boer, G. R. Gradwell, Dynamics of Populations, page 130

Origin of spottedly

From spotted + -ly.

Questions about spottedly

What does spottedly mean?
Spottedly means in spots, or occasional places; here and there.
What part of speech is spottedly?
Spottedly is an adverb.

Words near spottedly in the dictionary

  1. spotted wolffishes
  2. spotted woodpecker
  3. spotted-tailed quoll
  4. spotted-tailed quolls
  5. spottedback coralblenny
  6. spottedly
  7. spottedness
  8. spottee
  9. spottees
  10. spotter
  11. spotter plane

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