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Variegation

noun
1.
Variability in coloration.
2.
The act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered).  Synonym: diversification.  "He limited his losses by diversification of his product line"





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"Variegation" Quotes from Famous Books



... aureo-variegata, albo-variegata (albo-marmorata).—These names represent forms differing so slightly from each other, that it is not worth while to notice them separately, or even to treat them as distinct. In no case that I have seen is the variegation at all striking, and, except in tree collections, variegated ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various
... fashion of the Chanaanite maidens, added to her height. Tresses of pearls were fastened to her temples, and fell to the corners of her mouth, which was as rosy as a half-open pomegranate. On her breast was a collection of luminous stones, their variegation imitating the scales of the murena. Her arms were adorned with diamonds, and issued naked from her sleeveless tunic, which was starred with red flowers on a perfectly black ground. Between her ankles she wore a golden chainlet to regulate her steps, and her large dark purple mantle, cut of an ...
— Salammbo • Gustave Flaubert


Words linked to "Variegation" :   variability, variance, variableness, diversification, variegate, change


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