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variegated.

Adjective
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MEANING

Marked with different colours or irregular patches of colour.

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  • variegated leaves
  • variegated marble

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Variegated leaves caught the sunlight beneath the taller palms.

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variegated

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Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.

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