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発音

• (米国発音) enPR: mǒt' l, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑt əl/
  • 韻: -ɒtəl

動詞

mottle (三人称単数 現在形 mottles, 現在分詞 mottling, 過去形および過去分詞形 mottled)

1. To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
   • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 214:

     Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.

名詞

mottle (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 mottles)

1. (countable) A distinguishing blotch of colour.
2. (countable, uncountable) A mottled or spotted pattern.

   The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants.

   • 1992, Quarantine Pests for Europe, Wallingford, Oxfordshire: CAB International, →ISBN, page 972:

     SLRSV, being mostly latent in strawberries and other fruit crops, is of very minor importance. It can cause some mottle and decline in certain strawberry cultivars.