Meanings of variegation in English

Through this upper corridor flitted birds of bright hue or striking variegation.

There have been endless disputes whether variegation should be considered as a disease.

On her breast was a collection of luminous stones, their variegation imitating the scales of the murena.

The color displayed a slight variegation, like the mottled light at the bottom of a clear forest pond.

They were relatively sober and compact things, with narrower petals and much less flamboyant variegation than Dutch tulips.

The two mutations affected carpel development independently, each mutation showing incomplete penetrance and variegation, albeit at significantly different levels.

The theory that leaf variegation is a disease has been held by many distinguished botanists and is in nowise new.

One glow and variegation!

Formerly many physiologists considered leaf variegation a disease, because it generally ran in stripes lengthwise of the leaf or in spots.

The lack of the dark marking in the leaves was equivalent to the variegation in other varieties, only in a reverse direction.

Prices rose in a marvelous way; a new variegation, a new form, obtained in those blest leaves was an event, a fortune.

Both of these sequences are associated with heterochromatic regions of DNA, regions known to be involved in the phenomenon of position effect variegation.

At the meeting of the Association of Nurserymen in Chicago, last July, one of our prominent horticulturists described leaf variegation as a disease.

But the originating of varieties in which the variegation did not assume this form, with other considerations, has done much to upset this theory.

But it's not all brain-spattered streets and country lanes: Hart painstakingly details these towns and rural communities in all their religious and class-bound variegation.

In the pelargonium, and in some other plants, variegation is generally accompanied by some degree of dwarfing, as is well exemplified in the "Dandy" pelargonium.