black-spotted

• “Oak tortrix (fat, green, black-spotted) and mottled umber caterpillars (black, brown and yellow mottled) are abundant.”

  The Guardian: Country Diary: Cranleigh, Surrey

• “The spot-breasted lapwing is distinguished from its close relatives by the fleshy wattles in front of its eyes and by its black-spotted breast.”

  The Guardian: Mystery bird: Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus

• “The concrete-floored sink area was deserted; the black-spotted mirrors above the dripping sinks were blurry and misted.”

  Simon & Schuster: Silver Zombie

• “According to a center spokesperson who says the golden specimens are highly unusual, the 2. 4-centimeter (almost 1-inch) amphibians appear to be black-spotted pond frogs (Pelophylax nigromaculata, a.k.a. Rana nigromaculata) whose skin turned gold because of an albino mutation that prevents the formation of pigment cells.”

  Mutant Golden Frogs A Sign Of Good Luck? | Impact Lab

• “They had barely entered the dark cavernous passage, when a black-spotted leopard sprang, and fastened its fangs in the neck of one of the donkeys, causing it, from the pain, to bray hideously.”

  How I Found Livingstone

• “He leaned closer, sniffing, then suddenly sat down on his haunches, mouth lolling open in a familiar doggy smile, black-spotted pink tongue unfurling, the stench making me woozy.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• ““That black-spotted one of yours is fine — well shaped!” said he.”

  War and Peace

• “Milka, a black-spotted, broad-haunched bitch with prominent black eyes, got up on seeing her master, stretched her hind legs, lay down like a hare, and then suddenly jumped up and licked him right on his nose and mustache.”

  War and Peace

• “From behind Erza rushed the broad-haunched, black-spotted Milka and began rapidly gaining on the hare.”

  War and Peace

• “In the winter time they had their taffety gowns of all colours, as above-named, and those lined with the rich furrings of hind-wolves, or speckled lynxes, black-spotted weasels, martlet skins of Calabria, sables, and other costly furs of an inestimable value.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

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