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blotching

  • present participle
    of blotch.
    blotch
    noun
    a large, irregular spot or blot.

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Between those two ranges, in central Myanmar, researchers found an unusual population of green snakes with different amounts of blotching.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

In 2005, in the same journal, Annette Upfal gave a name to the blotching of the face—idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura—and proposed that Austen had died from Hodgkin’s disease.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017

The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was moving down the hallway, blotching like some misshapen toad in the shadowy light, lurching in his walk, that was, nevertheless, almost uncannily noiseless.

From The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

The coloured picture will convey a far better idea as to the colouring and blotching of the flowers than any printed description.

From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by John Weathers