mottled

Spotted or blotched with different shades or colors.

Spotted; variegated; marked with blotches of color, of unequal intensity, passing insensibly into one another.

Specifically

In entomology, marked with irregular spots, generally formed of hairs of a different color from the ground; having two or more colors irregularly mingled in spots, but not running into one another.

In metallurgy, an epithet noting the appearance of pig-iron when in a stage intermediate between the stages designated as the white and the gray.

Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted.

Colored in patches; spotted

simple past of mottle

having spots or patches of color