Associations to the word «Speckled»

Wiktionary

SPECKLED, adjective. Marked with dots or spots, spotted
SPECKLED, adjective. Sporadically and irregularly marked.
SPECKLED CARPETSHARK, noun. A bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around northern Australia; Hemiscyllium trispeculare.
SPECKLED TROUT, noun. A North American freshwater game fish (Salvelinus fontinalis); the brook trout.
SPECKLED WOOD, noun. A brown and cream butterfly with a row of small eyespots, Pararge aegeria, of the family Nymphalidae.
SPECKLED WOODS, noun. Plural of speckled wood

Dictionary definition

SPECKLED, adjective. Having a pattern of dots.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats