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# speckled

«speckled» in Mova's school dictionary: **covered with lots of small spots or marks of a different…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Speckled means covered with lots of small spots or marks of a different colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#m1)

2) It describes things like eggs, birds, fish or stone that have tiny dots all over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons, speckled feathers or eggs help animals hide (camouflage). In stories and descriptive writing, a speckled hen, a speckled trout or a speckled frog paints a clear picture. The song «Five Little Speckled Frogs» is a counting rhyme.

### examples

- The thrush has a speckled chest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#x1)
- We found a speckled egg in the nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#x2)
- Five little speckled frogs sat on a log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#x3)
- The trout was speckled with red dots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#x4)
- Speckled feathers help the bird hide in the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#x5)
- The old mirror was speckled with dust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#x6)
- She wore a blue speckled jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#x7)
- When she went into the stables, she suddenly saw the heavy pack-saddle of the speckled mare just over her head, and she jumped and said to herself: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/#x8)

### note

Adjective, from «speckle» (a small spot). Speckled means many tiny spots; «spotted» can mean bigger spots; «striped» means lines. In the counting song, the number of speckled frogs goes down by one each time: subtract one each verse.

### In the corpora

- [Young gulls are brown and speckled; a herring gull takes about four years to look fully grown up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/13/)
- [Granite is a speckled igneous rock with big crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica, formed deep underground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/48-igneous-rocks-and-the-rock-cycle/7/)
- [And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.929/)
- [Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.360/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «speckled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speckled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.