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variegated

UK/ˈvɛəɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/US/ˈvɛ(ə)ɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,918 of 15,258mostly written

Variegated means marked with patches of different colours. A variegated leaf.

In plants the pale parts have no green pigment, so a variegated one grows more slowly. A variegated plant will often revert to plain green, and those shoots must be cut out.

Poyt448 Peter Woodard · Public domain

Definitions of variegated

  1. 1adjectivevariegatedMarked with patches of different colours.C2

    “The variegated ivy took over the whole wall.”

variegated is a quality.

Where it comes from

From variegate + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

variegated in the wild

  • Many plants are also naturally variegated, such as Goeppertia insignis.

    Variegation

  • The variegated fairywren (Malurus lamberti) is a fairywren that lives in eastern Australia.

    Variegated fairywren

  • The Oxford botanist Robert Plot mentioned in a 1677 Flora a variegated elm in Dorset, where English elm is the common field elm.

    Ulmus minor 'Atinia Variegata'

  • Green noted that variegated forms of field elm "arise frequently, and several clones may have been known under this name".

    Ulmus minor 'Argenteo-Variegata'

  • The variegated butterfly bat (Glauconycteris variegata) is a species of vesper bat.

    Variegated butterfly bat

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.