variegated

«variegated» in Mova's school dictionary: Variegated leaves or flowers have patches, stripes or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (variegated)

meaning for a pupil

1) Variegated leaves or flowers have patches, stripes or edges of different colours, often green and white or yellow. tree →

2) Variegated means having many different colours or kinds. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in gardening and science about plants («variegated ivy», «variegated leaves»), and sometimes about yarn, stones or animals.

examples

• The variegated ivy has green and cream leaves. tree →
• Grandma grows a variegated holly with yellow edges. tree →
• Variegated plants need lots of light. tree →
• The shop sold variegated wool in many colours. tree →
• We drew a variegated leaf in science. tree →
• The snake had variegated scales of brown and gold. tree →
• Do you notice the variegated splendour of the walls and windows? tree →

note

Pronounced VAIR-ee-uh-gay-tid. A rather technical word; everyday speech says «striped», «patchy» or «multicoloured». In science: white patches have less chlorophyll, so they cannot make food from light.

In the corpora

• The white patches of a variegated leaf have no chlorophyll and make no food, so such plants often grow more slowly.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «variegated» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.