Sentence examples for mottled green from inspiring English sources

It is mottled green and adults grow to about 24cm.

It lends the distillery a rather Heath Robinsonish air, swathed in curls of steam and with the joins mottled green and purple from hard, sweaty use.

Adult female: The female has a similar coloration but appears duller; back is streaked (mottled) green and black as opposed to solid black in the male (Isler and Isler 1987, Ridgely and Tudor 1989).

The culms are wonderfully varied in color: green, yellow, golden orange; yellow with a vertical green stripe; green with a yellow groove; mottled green and black, like snakeskin; as jet black as a Steinway.

She wholly submitts to nature: in the wet season, heavy rains paste her sarong to her legs, outlining the muscles in her thighs, "the sarong's colors running," so that when she removes her clothes, her skin is "mottled green or blue or red from the dye".

Males are brown and females mottled green, and both are long and spindly, so they are perfectly camouflaged in their rainforest home.

The farm started bringing satsuma mandarins last weekend, but they're still mottled with green and a little tart for most palates.

Piculets, 9 14 cm (3.5 5.5 inches) long, are mottled gray-green to brown above, often with salt-and-pepper head, and are white below, with spots or bars.

The mottled-green skin is overlaid with washes of rose, themselves streaked randomly with unwatered scarlet pigment.

Glacier's leaves are mottled gray and green, with a pink edge; and Triloba has purplish-green leaves.

Leaves mottled purple and green; tepals pale purple; labellum white with purple spots.