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 →

2) It describes things like eggs, birds, fish or stone that have tiny dots all over. tree →

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 →
• We found a speckled egg in the nest. tree →
• Five little speckled frogs sat on a log. tree →
• The trout was speckled with red dots. tree →
• Speckled feathers help the bird hide in the grass. tree →
• The old mirror was speckled with dust. tree →
• She wore a blue speckled jumper. tree →
• 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 →

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.
• Granite is a speckled igneous rock with big crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica, formed deep underground.
• And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
• Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «speckled» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.