Crossword clues for variegation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Variegation \Va`ri*e*ga"tion\, n. The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being variegated 2 (context botany English) a variation in the colour of different zones of the same plant
WordNet
n. variability in coloration
the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered); "my broker recommended a greater diversification of my investments"; "he limited his losses by diversification of his product line" [syn: diversification]
Wikipedia
Variegation is the appearance of differently coloured zones in the leaves, and sometimes the stems, of plants. Variegated leaves occur rarely in nature. Species with variegated individuals are sometimes found in the understory of tropical rainforests, and this habitat is the source of a number of variegated house plants.
The term is also sometimes used to refer to colour zonation in flowers, minerals, and the skin, fur, feathers or scales of animals.
thumb|The cut surface of an adrenal myelolipoma shows colour variegation from yellow to red to brown depending on the distribution of fat, blood and myeloid elements In histology, variegation is the property of having discrete markings of different colors.
Usage examples of "variegation".
The division of the academical year into one session, and one recess, seems to me better accommodated to the present state of life, than that variegation of time by terms and vacations derived from distant centuries, in which it was probably convenient, and still continued in the English universities.
Sometimes the colours ran together, and made a little river or lake of lambent, interfusing, and changing tints, which, by their variegation, seemed to imitate the flowing of water, or waves made by the wind.
I saw the tiny variegations in the pupils of his eyes, the bright deep-pointed stars behind the darkening irises.
He says, “There are few plants which acquire, through accident, weakness, or disease, so many variegations as the tulip.
His fur was green, with variegations of black, grey, and white on his abdomen that form the face of a smiling bearded man.
These gryphons were a uniform dark brown from beak to tail, a color with some patterned shading in a lighter brown, but nothing nearly like the malar-stripes or masks of the falconiform gryphons, or the variegations of the hawk-gryphons, with their bright yellow beaks and claws.