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Definition of Marblings
1. marbling [n] - See also: marbling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marblings
Literary usage of Marblings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"have marblings, or round spots, of the colour of blood, (Xantho of the same.)
Other considerations might induce us to augment the number of these sections. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1907)
"diameters, with the sides of the photomicrograph parallel to the diagonals of
the square), the dark marblings show much smaller and less decided figures, ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1893)
"In vaccinii the sub-trapezoidal is more pronounced than the dorsal line, it is
ragged, but broad enough not to be quite interrupted by the marblings. ..."
4. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"with less coarse marblings than the one described above, and the underside nearly
uniform pale brownish. The three specimens hi the Copenhagen Museum, ..."
5. A Manual of North American Butterflies by Charles Johnson Maynard (1891)
"14, d; the base of both wings is dusky, and the marblings of hind wings ...
The marblings below are rather more decided, leaving the interspaces clearer. ..."
6. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"In general color the upper parts are green with black marblings; the crest of
the male being ornamented with black and white vertical bars, ..."
7. The Tailless Batrachians of Europe by George Albert Boulenger (1898)
"Brown, olive, greyish, or red above, uniform, or with dark brown or blackish
spots or marblings ; some females handsomely marbled with dark brown, ..."
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