Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored.
- adjective Distinguished or characterized by variety; diversified.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Varied in color; irregularly marked with different colors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having marks or patches of different colors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Streaked ,spotted , or otherwisemarked with avariety of color; very colorful. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
variegate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a variety of colors
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Examples
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Given my tree theme this week, I decided to add some trees, and some lawn/grass in variegated green.
Arch, box, houses katelnorth 2008
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I was left to design and execute the lettering in variegated gold and One Shot enamel.
Boing Boing 2008
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The postcard just has two colours of fabric on it (plum and purple), separated by eyelash yarn in variegated purple - some other yarn couched down, some charms and another, different colour of eyelash yarn around the outside.
Purple day katelnorth 2008
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And I love it in variegated thread on a black background.
Archive 2006-11-01 katelnorth 2006
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And I love it in variegated thread on a black background.
Birthday Shooting Stars katelnorth 2006
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His fancy had sketched a pleasing picture of beautiful floating domiciles, moored under the banks of the river, and inhabited by a hundred thousand people in variegated costume; he recalled to memory the stories of the lofty pagodas lifting roof above roof, ... the snug cottages with the picturesque bridges and the comfortable Chinaman under the shade of a willow, with nothing to do but fish, all of which we have been accustomed to read, and pictures of which served to amuse us in our childhood ....
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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There is also a so-called variegated form, but it is not worthy of mention.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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Vertical plants such as horsetails, rushes and papyrus are a key element in designing such an environment and one of the loveliest - and lesser known - of these moisture-loving verticals is Baumea rubiginosa 'Variegata,' otherwise known as variegated striped rush.
SFGate: Top News Stories Erle Nickel 2011
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They were of the species [Ursus horribilis] common to the upper part of the Missouri, and might well be termed the variegated bear, for they are found occasionally of a black, grizzly, brown, or red color.
First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805
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The editors of Memories of Eden, Mira and Tony Rocca received this moving letter from a Mandaean reader, who recalls the variegated social fabric which the book's author, Violette Shamash, describes.
Point of no return 2009
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