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What is the adjective for speck?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs speck and speckle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

speckled
  1. Marked with dots or spots, spotted.
  2. Sporadically and irregularly marked.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. spotted, mottled, flecked, dappled, variegated, motley, stippled, spotty, dotted, freckled, specked, dapple, splotchy, particolored, blotchy, brindled, patchy, speckly, sprinkled, freckly, punctate, flaked, mosaic, peppered, spattered, studded, marbled, piebald, pied, streaked, multicolored, varicolored, multicoloured, prismatic, kaleidoscopic, checkered, polychromatic, polychrome, chequered, versicolor, blotched, polychromous, versicolored, veined, pinto, polychromic, splotched, brindle, marked, rainbow … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The narrow bands of speckled scales which adorn the body and tail are also a typical keelback pattern.”
      “White and speckled alstroemeria flowers and tapered reed stems combine with cat's eye marbles in a glass vase.”
      “It was plated upright, on a giant white platter, and its interior was speckled with peppery lardons and smudges of warm Roquefort.”
specklike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a speck; almost too small to see.
speckly
  1. speckled; marked with speckles
  2. Synonyms:
      3. speckled, spotted, mottled, flecked, dappled, variegated, motley, stippled, spotty, dotted, freckled, specked, dapple, splotchy, particolored, blotchy, brindled, patchy, sprinkled, freckly, punctate, flaked, mosaic, peppered, spattered, studded, splodgy, macular, maculate, guttate, maculated, foxed, marked, pied, piebald, splotched, marbled, pinto, brindle, blotched, stained, dotty, polka-dot, covered with spots, streaked, multicolored, varicolored, multicoloured, prismatic, kaleidoscopic … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “A day later, the moulds were emptied, and out came a hundred brand new shiny speckly blue and green giant marbles.”
      “They scuttled for days and days till they came to a great forest, exclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy shadows.”
      “A Houdan cockerel with bedraggled speckly plumage and a ragged crest hanging over one eye struts from doorstep to doorstep.”
specked
  1. Having specks or spots, speckled.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spotted, mottled, speckled, flecked, dappled, stippled, spotty, dotted, freckled, variegated, splotchy, dapple, blotchy, patchy, blotched, marbled, splodgy, piebald, brindled, splotched, dotty, pied, marked, motley, pinto, brindle, streaked, speckly, maculate, macular, skewbald, checkered, guttate, maculated, foxed, sprinkled, marled, punctate, flaked, multicoloured, chequered, freckly, multicolored, stained, punctated, patched, splashed, patterned, scattered, particolored … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Her short hair was specked with gray and her face contained only a few wrinkles.”
      “The ham was, by this stage, specked with fungus and small white things that might have been maggots.”
      “The blue, blue sea, specked with whitecaps, the dramatic, green-clad peaks, and the colorful beachside villages look like a dream come true.”
specking
  1. present participle of speck
  2. Synonyms:
      3. flecking, spotting, speckling, dotting, stippling, mottling, blotching, sprinkling, freckling, peppering, marbling, splotching, dappling, spattering, dusting, shooting, marking, staining, besprinkling, bespattering, splodging, splashing, bespeckling, soiling, studding, dirtying, smearing, smudging, streaking, splattering, besmirching, smirching, daubing, dabbing, slabbering, blotting, sullying, scattering, bestudding, strewing, spraying, sploshing, bestrewing, pimpling, muddying, befouling, begriming, dashing, bedabbling, variegating … more
speckling
  1. present participle of speckle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spotting, dotting, flecking, stippling, mottling, sprinkling, peppering, blotching, freckling, specking, marbling, splotching, dappling, shooting, marking, bespeckling, spattering, studding, dabbing, dusting, besprinkling, dabbling, pimpling, bespattering, staining, splashing, splodging, smudging, smearing, scattering, dirtying, splattering, spraying, streaking, blotting, strewing, soiling, smirching, daubing, showering, bestudding, covering, bestrewing, slabbering, besmirching, wetting, sloshing, scarring, dashing, blemishing … more
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