blotch

The discovery comes from a University of Florida study investigating bacterial blotch, a persistent disease that damages white button mushrooms and causes significant financial losses for growers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

I also had a little red blotch of skin, but as I said, my thighs rub together, so maybe it was nothing?

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2024

But the second image included a big blotch, a blast zone of disturbed dust radiating outward more than 10 miles that had not been in the first image.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

When consumptive Satine coughs into her handkerchief, she reveals the red blotch as any terminal operatic heroine knows to do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

Her hand slipped, and a fat blotch appeared at the end of Meeks’s name.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

The house’s roof, the front steps and the driveway were spattered with white blotches, as if the area had been the site of a fierce paintball battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

As he recounted the odyssey, more than 20 years of practice could be charted through various blotches and burn scars on his arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

In its state of abandoned tear-down, the venue offers melodious visual rhymes: electrical cords dangling from the ceiling ape Wool’s snarls of found-wire sculpture; crumbling plaster mirrors the attitudinal blotches of his oils and inks.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

“If it does easily, you may not need as much water. If it’s difficult to come out, or comes out in blotches, use the wet method.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Glancing round, they beheld a large furry shape—black with blotches of white, or was it white with blotches of black?

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

At least two other threatened species — the Gulf sturgeon and yellow blotched map turtle — also occupy the Pearl darter’s designated critical habitat and will benefit from the protections.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

An example of the founder effect is the cyclical dominance of three throat-color patterns in side- blotched lizards.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Altered taqpep genes were already known to cause blotched tabby patterns in cats, as well as king cheetahs’ unusually large spots and stripes.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2021

The blotched and sagging face twisted grotesquely into the grimace of extreme grief.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Between those two ranges, in central Myanmar, researchers found an unusual population of green snakes with different amounts of blotching.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

In 2005, in the same journal, Annette Upfal gave a name to the blotching of the face—idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura—and proposed that Austen had died from Hodgkin’s disease.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017

The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each variety, whatever its parentage may have been, retained all its characters perfect, and there was no streaking or blotching of the colours, as in the foregoing plants of crossed origin.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

He was moving down the hallway, blotching like some misshapen toad in the shadowy light, lurching in his walk, that was, nevertheless, almost uncannily noiseless.

From The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard