Usually means: Creating spotted patterns of light.
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  1. dappling: Merriam-Webster
  2. dappling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dappling: Vocabulary.com
  4. dappling: Wordnik
  5. dappling: Wiktionary
  6. Dappling, dappling: Dictionary.com
  7. Dappling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Dappling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. dappling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. dappling: FreeDictionary.org
  11. dappling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dappling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dappling: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dappling)

▸ noun:  A dappled pattern.

Similar:
spot, maculation, mottle, speckle, fleck, cloud, patch, dappleness, dotting, dimplement, more...

Opposite:
solid, uniform, homogeneous

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Similar:
spot, maculation, mottle, speckle, fleck, cloud, patch, dappleness, dotting, dimplement, more...

Opposite:
solid, uniform, homogeneous



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