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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#m1)

2) Variegated means having many different colours or kinds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#x1)
- Grandma grows a variegated holly with yellow edges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#x2)
- Variegated plants need lots of light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#x3)
- The shop sold variegated wool in many colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#x4)
- We drew a variegated leaf in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#x5)
- The snake had variegated scales of brown and gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#x6)
- Do you notice the variegated splendour of the walls and windows? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «variegated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variegated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.