variegation

Example Sentences

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Maybe it’s a new-to-you species or an old species reimagined in an unusual color, with splashy variegation or striking features.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2021

In summer, Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus ‘Cosmopolitan’ arches tall in ribbons of white and green variegation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2018

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

The Rockies may offer wilder wildernesses, but you don’t experience the pleasure of sharp cultural variegation as you move from place to place.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

The secret of our discontent, possibly, lies in the fact that variegation in plants that are normally green is not, in its essence, a sign of health but of wasting sickness.

From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Cook, Ernest Thomas