Variegated \Va"ri*e*ga`ted\, a.
Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated
leaves, or flowers.
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Ladies like variegated tulips show. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Variegate \Va"ri*e*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Variegated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Variegating.] [L. variegatus, p. p. of
variegare to variegate; varius various + agere to move, make.
See Various, and Agent.]
To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different
colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with
marble of different colors.
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The shells are filled with a white spar, which
variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone.
--Woodward.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
variegated
adj : having a variety of colors [syn: varicolored, varicoloured]
WordNet (r) 2.0
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "variegated":
assorted, at odds, at variance, bicolor, bicolored, brindled,
calico, capricious, changeable, changing, checked, checkered,
choppy, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory,
contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled,
departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dichromatic, different,
differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discolor,
discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined,
disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct,
distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers,
divers-colored, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic,
flecked, freaked, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, heterogeneous,
impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous,
inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious,
irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, many,
many-colored, marbled, matching, medley, mercurial, monochromatic,
monochrome, monochromic, motley, mottle, mottled, multicolor,
multicolored, multicolorous, multifarious, multihued, mutable,
nacreous, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, opalescent,
opaline, parti-color, parti-colored, piebald, pied, pigmentary,
pinto, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, polychromatic,
polychrome, polychromic, prismal, prismatic, ragged, rainbow,
rough, separate, separated, several, shot, shot through, skewbald,
spasmodic, spattered, speckled, spectral, sporadic, spotted,
stippled, streaked, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent,
toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone,
unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox,
unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant,
varicolored, varied, variform, various, varying, versicolor,
versicolored, warm, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
varicolored, varicoloured
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