blotch
a large, irregular spot or blot.
Plant Pathology.
a diseased, discolored spot or area on a plant.
a disease so characterized, usually accompanied by cankers and lesions.
a skin eruption; blemish.
to mark with blotches; blot, spot, or blur: The floor of the forest was blotched with cool, dark moss.
Textiles. of or relating to blotch printing, or to the colored ground produced by this process.
Origin of blotch
1Other words for blotch
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How to use blotch in a sentence
The trees outside the window looked like blotches of paint, their leaves blending into the blue sky above.
Handcuffs, Ropes, and an Open Window: How I Escaped an Unthinkable Childhood | Genyfer Spark | January 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAgain, the big howitzers led the infernal orchestra pitting the face of no man's land with jet black blotches.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonHe next smoothed out the creased silk and studied minutely the blotches, which were heaviest about the left breast and shoulder.
Average Jones | Samuel Hopkins AdamsAs I looked up the valley, I could see others dismounted, and many vast dark blotches on the gray.
The Way of a Man | Emerson HoughIt was now quite dark, except when the moon rode free of the dense blotches of clouds that filled the sky.
The Yeoman Adventurer | George W. Gough
A piece of tortoise-shell at the back, with a judicious arrangement of the golden and dark blotches, made it a transparency.
The Quiver 3/1900 | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for blotch
/ (blɒtʃ) /
an irregular spot or discoloration, esp a dark and relatively large one such as an ink stain
to become or cause to become marked by such discoloration
(intr) (of a pen or ink) to write or flow unevenly in blotches
Origin of blotch
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for blotch
[ blŏch ]
Any of several plant diseases caused by fungi and resulting in brown or black dead areas on leaves or fruit.
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