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- noun Plural form of
variegation .
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Examples
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But as it gets bigger, the variegations may even out a bit.
Shetland Tea Shawl 2005
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But as it gets bigger, the variegations may even out a bit.
June 2005 2005
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These gryphons were a uniform dark brown from beak to tail, a color with some patterned shading in a lighter brown, but nothing nearly like the malar-stripes or masks of the falconiform gryphons, or the variegations of the hawk-gryphons, with their bright yellow beaks and claws.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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These gryphons were a uniform dark brown from beak to tail, a color with some patterned shading in a lighter brown, but nothing nearly like the malar-stripes or masks of the falconiform gryphons, or the variegations of the hawk-gryphons, with their bright yellow beaks and claws.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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The ripe seeds are clear bright-pink, striped and spotted with deep purplish-red: the pink changes gradually to dull, dark-red, and the variegations to dark-brown.
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At maturity, the clear, pale-yellow is changed to brownish-white, and the bright-red variegations are either entirely obliterated, or changed to dull, dead purple.
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Purple flowers are commonly contrasted with centres or variegations of bright yellow, as blue flowers are with like relievings of orange; and there is a prevailing hue, or character, in the green colour of the foliage of almost every plant, by which it is harmonized with the colours of its flowers.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Fruit round, or oblate, and of medium size; skin pale-green, with stripes and variegations of white or paler green; rind thin; flesh pale-red, crisp, sweet, and of excellent flavor; seeds reddish-brown.
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From the time of ripening, the soft, flesh-like tint gradually loses its freshness, and finally becomes cinnamon-brown; the variegations growing relatively duller and darker.
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A sub-variety of the Spotted Chiccory, more constant in its character, and more uniform and distinct in its stripes and variegations.
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