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Definition of Speckles
1. speckle [v] - See also: speckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speckles
Literary usage of Speckles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"Well, winter come on and the range it got hard, and my mustang commenced to get
thin, So I fed him along and rode him around some and found out old speckles ..."
2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1863)
"Fore wings with very minute black speckles, some of which form a diffuse patch,
which extends from the exterior part of the costa to the disk; several pale ..."
3. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"speckles By N. Howard Thorp This song was written in 1906 at Palma, New Mexico,
my old ranch. I gave the contract to print my first little book, ..."
4. Papilio by Henry Edwards, Eugene Murray-Aaron, New York Entomological Club (1881)
"Slight indications of brownish speckles. Interior margin dark- brownish.
Secondaries creamish white, with yellowish basal tuft and brownish fringe of ..."
5. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous-Hemiptera in the Collection of by Francis Walker (1867)
"Fore wings with yellow speckles and with four yellow stripes ; first stripe costal
... Thorax with various whitish yellow speckles and with a whitish yellow ..."
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