different between mottled vs burl
mottled
English
Etymology
1670-80 mottle +? -ed.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: m?t' ld, IPA(key): /?m?t ?ld/
Adjective
mottled (comparative more mottled, superlative most mottled)
- Colored in patches; spotted
- The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows.
Derived terms
- mottled duck
Translations
Verb
mottled
- simple past tense and past participle of mottle
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burl
English
Alternative forms
- burr (UK)
Etymology
From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bouril, bourril (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), from Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /b?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??l/
- Rhymes: -??(?)l
Noun
burl (plural burls)
- A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
- Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
- A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
Translations
Verb
burl (third-person singular simple present burls, present participle burling, simple past and past participle burled)
- To remove the knots in cloth.
Anagrams
- blur
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- what burlesque mean
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