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Discover LudwigThe word 'blotch' is correct and commonly used in written English
It has multiple meanings, but generally refers to a spot or mark that is dark, irregularly shaped, and often caused by a stain or discoloration. Example: The painter accidentally spilled red paint on the canvas, creating a large blotch that ruined the entire piece. She had a blotch of tomato sauce on her shirt from lunch. The doctor noticed a suspicious blotch on the patient's skin and ordered further testing. He tried to cover up the blotch on the wall with a new coat of paint, but it was still visible.
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They are an impressive sight: a blotch of malodorous life in the desert.
Its maximum length is about 70 cm (28 inches), and its colour is silvery with a distinctive black blotch near the base of each pectoral fin.
The others I grow are "Candy Dancer" which has crisp, very deeply cut leaves, and peppermint-scented "Chocolate Peppermint" with huge hairy leaves, dull green with a chocolate-coloured blotch in the centre.
Assuming the fuzzy blotch was simply a small piece of mould, Ms Taylor continued eating – only to later notice that dozens of tiny baby spiders were emerging from within the fur and crawling all over her banana.
To him, inequality isn't just a moral blotch on our culture, it's also bad news for our collective growth.
"What it showed is this big, red blotch over Southern California.
Most leaf-miner burrows or tunnels are referred to as serpentine mines, consisting of thin, winding, whitish trails, or as blotch mines, which are broad and whitish or brownish in colour.
The large flowers are single and roselike, in white, pink, or rosy-purple, often with a yellowish or dark blotch at the base of the petals.
Ringed seals (P. hispida) have blotches over their entire bodies, harp seals (P. groenlandica) have a large blotch of black on otherwise mostly silver-gray fur, harbour seals (P. vitulina) have a marbled coat, and ribbon seals (P. fasciata) have dark fur with ribbons of paler fur around the neck, front limbs, and posterior part of their body.
Jock studied a map of Africa; the little blotch labelled "Rwanda" meant nothing to him.
In the morning, she woke to yellow sunshine lying across the bed — clear sunshine, with an occasional blotch of shadow moving over it.
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