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UK
/vˌeəɹɪɡˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- variability in coloration
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the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)
my broker recommended a greater diversification of my investments
he limited his losses by diversification of his product line
How To Use variegation In A Sentence
- Gardeners also use crotons, hardy bushes with a million variegations in purple, yellow and green, heliconias, for their slender stems and banana-like leaves, and also flowering trees (which often bloom later in the year).
- There are different kinds with bronze, yellow, white variegation, blue and silver foliage. The Sun
- These unstable phenotypes that varied between siblings included widely variable flower morphology, stem fasciation, variation in rosette leaves, and anthocyanin variegation of the stem.
- Forms of variegation differ enormously. Times, Sunday Times
- Silver foliage and leaves with white variegation will also add a twilight glow to a border. Times, Sunday Times
- Fortunately, juvenile foliage has the best variegation, so annual pollarding will stop it reaching 35ft and more. Times, Sunday Times
- This family of evergreen plants bears swordlike leaves in shades of green, coppery red, and yellow, plus variegations.
- The variegation is a nice feature in a shady garden, especially when nothing is in bloom.
- Variegation in leaves is caused by a loss of light absorbing pigments in the plant cells.
- Position-effect variegation results from the juxtaposition of euchromatin and heterochromatin by chromosome rearrangement or transposon insertion.
