variegation
Example Sentences
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The results are Romantic landscapes in miniature, with the variegation of the stone transforming into fields, skies and mountains whose beauty is further enhanced by the delicate metalwork in which they’re mounted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
“This variegation decreases their fitness, which makes them more scarce,” Jonard said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
You can find leaf variegation in hardy lilies, but this decorative aspect is unsurpassed in some tropical lilies.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2021
But these shifts feel deliberate, like the clicking of a slide projector rather than the smooth variegation of a kaleidoscope, and the landscape always clears atop that steady pulse.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2016
POLLOCK, Sir F., transmission of variegated leaves in Ballota nigra. -on local tendency to variegation.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
