Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 1. Made like marble, or invested with marble as a covering. Compare marbled, marbleize.
  • In botany, traversed with veins as in some kinds of marble.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective variegated like marble
  • adjective covered or overlaid with marble

Etymologies

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Latin marmoratus, past participle of marmorate ("to overlay with marble").

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