Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Having a variety of colors; variegated or motley. alt. Having a variety of colors; variegated or motley.
WordNet
adj. having a variety of colors [syn: varicoloured, variegated]
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multicolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicoloured]
Usage examples of "varicolored".
Behind my back: sparrows, varicolored flies, climbing sun, and the kennel.
Then they turn into marvelous, varicolored butterflies and they break free of the cocoon.
Edge found Florian in conference with a gathering of men and women of various ages, the men in dusty-green lederhosen, the women mostly in varicolored dirndls.
Her body was covered with thick varicolored towels tabbed together, and the hood still shrouded her face.
Eve would not object if he went by himself, since she had to finish stringing necklaces of hornfish vertebrae, varicolored helical bones in demand as ornaments.
There were tiny little bands of color, like spiderwebs of varicolored light, all over the things.
Although he had no control over the colors or the mixing, the result was an exotic design not unlike a varicolored mask of some strange, ancient creature on the dirt below.
To underscore their moment, various of the rings winked in a random scattering of varicolored flashes and glows.
Ahlitah was sitting on the highest chunk of volcanic paving stone he had been able to find, one that was moderately free of slime, and was cleaning himself, licking his forepaws and using them to glean green gore, varicolored guts, and bits of torn flesh from his jaws and feet.
He almost forgot this precaution, however, when he saw the tiny varicolored objects on the surface of the sample.
The mother passed her hands over her eyes as if to rub her reminiscences away, and her thoughts fluttered like a varicolored ribbon.
Before her the picture of human life unrolled itself ever wider and more varicolored, that restless, anxious life passed in the struggle to fill the stomach.
Her voice flowed on evenly, the words came to her readily, and she quickly strung them, like bright, varicolored beads, on strong threads of her desire to cleanse her heart of the blood and filth of that day.
All around them in the deep-set night, the varicolored explosions popped and sugged, expanding in all directions like fireworks, then dimming the scene, again the blackness.
The five Molts standing behind the humans were probably principal clerks in their departments, since they wore varicolored sashes.