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Definition of Spotted
1. Adjective. Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture). "A black-and-white spotted cow"
Definition of Spotted
1. a. Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character.
Definition of Spotted
1. Adjective. Discoloured by spots; stained. ¹
2. Adjective. (''no comparative or superlative'') Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants). ¹
3. Verb. (past of ''spot'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spotted
1. spot [v] - See also: spot
Medical Definition of Spotted
1.
Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spotted
Literary usage of Spotted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Pitcher spotted; lid green above, indistinctly marked with red below; 1883. ...
Pitcher spotted, much narrowed near center, 4-5x2-2%; rim green; ..."
2. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"THE spotted POLAND-CHINA (PLATE 3d) This breed had its official beginning with
the organization of the National spotted Poland-China Record Association at ..."
3. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"THE spotted POLAND-CHINA (PLATE XI) This breed had its official beginning with
the organization of the National spotted Poland-China Record Association at ..."
4. My Friend the Indian by James McLaughlin (1910)
"spotted HORN BULL'S VIEW OF THE CUSTER TRAGEDY The Story of the Last Stand ...
IN the first place Mrs. spotted Horn Bull was there —which is more than can ..."
5. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"A Suggestion as to the Treatment of the spotted Fever of Montana. ... KING, WW
Experimental Transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by means of the ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"About \Yi ft. high when in bloom: Ivs. many, in a rosette, rather short, strongly
recurving, grayish and somewhat white- dotted above, spotted with ..."
7. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"227, Mr. LL Jewel speaks of a crippled spotted Sandpiper (Actitis ... While crossing
a small bay at Far Rockaway, Long Island, a spotted Sandpiper was ..."
8. 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 (1829)
"Rufous; beneath white, spotted with black; back and neck longitudinally lined
with black ; head and wings spotted with black; ..."
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