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VARIEGATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does variegated mean?
• VARIEGATED (adjective)
The adjective VARIEGATED has 1 sense:
1. having a variety of colors
Familiarity information: VARIEGATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a variety of colors
Synonyms:
varicolored; varicoloured; variegated
Similar:
varied (characterized by variety)
Context examples
It was now a variegated wall, composed of the trees that fringed the stream, the opposing mountain that towered above the trees, and the sky that out-towered the mountain.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Mutation of the gene is associated with colorectal cancer, mosaic variegated aneuploidy syndrome and premature chromatid separation trait and may be involved in other carcinomas.
(BUB1B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
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