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Motte vs Mottle - What's the difference?

motte | mottle |

As verbs the difference between motte and mottle

is that motte is while mottle is to mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

As a noun mottle is

a distinguishing blotch of color.

motte

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.
  • (US, dialect) A clump of trees in a prairie.

    • Derived terms

    * motte-and-bailey

    Anagrams

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    mottle

    English

    Verb

    (mottl)
  • To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia mottle) (mottles)
  • a distinguishing blotch of color
  • mottled coloration or pattern
    • The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants.