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Answer for the clue "Variability in coloration ", 11 letters:
variegation

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in 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 Word definitions in 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 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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.

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.