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Definition of Mottlings
1. mottling [n] - See also: mottling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mottlings
Literary usage of Mottlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"Upper surface lighter, more brownish, the light mottlings much more ... Dark brown
of upper parts more grayish, the light mottlings more grayish or whitish. ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1894)
"... median and greater coverts light sandy rufous, paler at the ends and with very
few cross-lines or mottlings of black ; bastard-wing sandy buff but more ..."
3. Upper Peninsula, 1893-1897 by Michigan Geological Survey (1898)
"The point where the specimen showing the mottlings was taken is in the part of the
... 96 has weathering knobs of about an inch in diameter with mottlings ..."
4. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, John E. Cadle, Harvard University (1905)
"Dorsal surface purplish or purplish brown from closely placed mottlings of
pigment ; ventral surface gray or yellowish. Body is paler anteriorly ; tip and ..."
5. The New Astronomy by Samuel Pierpont Langley (1887)
"In looking at this spot and its striking changes, the reader must not omit to
notice, also, a much less obvious feature, — the vaguely seen mottlings which ..."
6. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"A dark dorsal line, each side of which are a few yellow mottlings on the dark
... segments and some rather more continuous yellow mottlings along the sub- ..."
7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1879)
"A narrow strip of the mottlings will appear to flow through the mottled sheet of
paper, reminding one strongly of the appearance of a lava stream, ..."
8. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1904)
"In nine cases fatal within this period it was of a gray pink, or dark pink color,
or was marked by red streaks, or mottlings, occasionally with ..."
9. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"Upper surface lighter, more brownish, the light mottlings much more ... Dark brown
of upper parts more grayish, the light mottlings more grayish or whitish. ..."
10. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1894)
"... median and greater coverts light sandy rufous, paler at the ends and with very
few cross-lines or mottlings of black ; bastard-wing sandy buff but more ..."
11. Upper Peninsula, 1893-1897 by Michigan Geological Survey (1898)
"The point where the specimen showing the mottlings was taken is in the part of the
... 96 has weathering knobs of about an inch in diameter with mottlings ..."
12. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, John E. Cadle, Harvard University (1905)
"Dorsal surface purplish or purplish brown from closely placed mottlings of
pigment ; ventral surface gray or yellowish. Body is paler anteriorly ; tip and ..."
13. The New Astronomy by Samuel Pierpont Langley (1887)
"In looking at this spot and its striking changes, the reader must not omit to
notice, also, a much less obvious feature, — the vaguely seen mottlings which ..."
14. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"A dark dorsal line, each side of which are a few yellow mottlings on the dark
... segments and some rather more continuous yellow mottlings along the sub- ..."
15. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1879)
"A narrow strip of the mottlings will appear to flow through the mottled sheet of
paper, reminding one strongly of the appearance of a lava stream, ..."
16. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1904)
"In nine cases fatal within this period it was of a gray pink, or dark pink color,
or was marked by red streaks, or mottlings, occasionally with ..."
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