1) Dappled 2) Dotted 3) Flecked 4) Patterned 5) Specked 6) Speckled 7) Spotted 1) Dotted 2) Flecked 3) Having a pattern of dots 4) Painted with dots 5) Patterned 6) Specked 7) Speckled 
• (imp. & p. p.) of Stipple
a pattern which is made of small dots. Gingiva has a stippled appearance due to small depressions caused by the attachment of clumps of fibres in the lamina propria to the basement membrane of the epithelium..