What is "diversified"

Usage examples of "diversified".

The little masses of aggregated matter are of the most diversified shapes, often spherical or oval, sometimes much elongated, or quite irregular with thread or necklacelike or clubformed projections.

As all this information was embellished and diversified by a considerable fund of anecdotage, it took the most of the way through supper.

They quickly diversified, and by the middle of the period angiosperms of modern aspect had spread all over the planet.

Our friend in Bonanza turns out to have diversified his portfolio far beyond the usual metal goods.

Among predatory dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, there occur tyrannosaurids and many diversified but rare small predatory groups such as dromaeosaurids, troodontids, elmisaurids and oviraptorosaurs.

A good enough solution to have diversified into five hundred genera, five thousand species: corn, wheat, rice, bamboo, sorghum, reed, oats, timothy, fescue, Kentucky blue.

Clearing Sconce Point, which is the first object worthy notice from Cowes, you perceive the cottage, battery, and residence of Captain Farrington on the rise of the hill, and beyond are Gurnet and Harness Bays closely succeeding one another, the shores above being well diversified with foliage and richly cultivated grounds.

A large amount of inheritable and diversified variability is favourable, but I believe mere individual differences suffice for the work.

For in the larger country there will have existed more individuals, and more diversified forms, and the competition will have been severer, and thus the standard of perfection will have been rendered higher.

Out of this varied group of Triassic archosaurs arose the dinosaurs which, though initially rare, spread, diversified, and eventually completely dominated the animal communities of the world over the next 150 million years.

After the foregoing discussion, which ought to have been much amplified, we may, I think, assume that the modified descendants of any one species will succeed by so much the better as they become more diversified in structure, and are thus enabled to encroach on places occupied by other beings.

But as a general rule, the more diversified in structure the descendants from any one species can be rendered, the more places they will be enabled to seize on, and the more their modified progeny will be increased.

Their modified descendants, fourteen in number at the fourteen-thousandth generation, will probably have inherited some of the same advantages: they have also been modified and improved in a diversified manner at each stage of descent, so as to have become adapted to many related places in the natural economy of their country.

Seeing that a few members of such water-breathing classes as the Crustacea and Mollusca are adapted to live on the land, and seeing that we have flying birds and mammals, flying insects of the most diversified types, and formerly had flying reptiles, it is conceivable that flying-fish, which now glide far through the air, slightly rising and turning by the aid of their fluttering fins, might have been modified into perfectly winged animals.

South Downs of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an upper deposit of peaty, boggy soil, all having been brought down by the rivers of which the Itchen and the Test remain.