0 covered with spots of colour that are lighter or darker than the main colour, or covered with areas of light and darkness:
Because of the dappled nature of the universe, nomological machines are seldom just found.
The central moral inspires the book's title, namely, that the universe is "dappled".
Easily missed by the unfamiliar eye it grows into a small tree with a dappled grey trunk, straggly branches and clusters of ovate grey-green leaves.
Cartwright (1983; 1999) has famously argued that the world is not a single, working machine, but is instead "dappled," by which she means ontologically disunified.
He is transformed into a deer with a dappled hide and long antlers, robbed of his ability to speak, and thereafter promptly flees in fear.
Despite their natural occurrence in woodland, waratahs flower best in full sun, although they tolerate the dappled shade of eucalypts.
Freshly emerged larvae consume unhatched eggs, and eventually have a dappled appearance and 6 tubercles on each abdominal segment.
The cat is covered in rosettes for camouflage in the dappled light of its forest habitat.
