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• v  produce a mottled effect
• v  mark with small spots
• s  having a pattern of dots

• Libya, a country of a few backward cities and oasis-speckled sand wilderness about three times the size of Texas, is the first nation brought into being solely by the United Nations.
• Ahmad and the two thousand other students can see them scuttling after school into their cars on the crackling, trash-speckled parking lot like pale crabs or dark ones restored .
• By 1900, black peppered moths outnumbered the speckled variety by 99 to 1.

• stipple
• speckle
• bespeckle
• dotted
• flecked
• specked
• stippled

News & Articles

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• Pox and the City: A public health history game
  Learn about the conquest of smallpox, once known as the “speckled monster," through role-playing. Wanna be a virus?
  June 11, 2013 - Philly.com
• 4 O'Clock Forecast: Winds make a return visit
  If the forecast holds true, anglers will be targeting redfish in the marshes instead of speckled trout in the bays.
  June 8, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
• Big names return to softball squad
  Is it a surprise that this year’s All-Europe Softball Teams are speckled with pitchers? We didn’t think so, with the likes of Ramstein’s Kelsey Freeman and cohort Katherine Enyeart.
  June 7, 2013 - Stars and Stripes

Quotes

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• Albrecht Dürer in Washington Post
  It has the color of a speckled turtle,noted Albrecht Durer, the great German master, who made a woodcut of that wondrous beast, though he never got to see it.