Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dapple

1 sense of dapple

Sense 1
spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation -- (a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red")
       => marking -- (a pattern of marks)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb dapple

1 sense of dapple

Sense 1
mottle, dapple, cloud -- (colour with streaks or blotches of different shades)
       => spot -- (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; "spot the areas that one should clearly identify")