"speckle" in the noun sense
1. spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation
a small contrasting part of something
"a bald spot"
"a leopard's spots"
"a patch of clouds"
"patches of thin ice"
"a fleck of red"
"speckle" in the verb sense
1. stipple, speckle
produce a mottled effect
"The sunlight stippled the trees"
2. speckle, bespeckle
mark with small spots
"speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots"
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