[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

variegated \va"riega`ted\, a.
   having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated
   leaves, or flowers.
   1913 webster

         ladies like variegated tulips show.      --pope.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

variegate \va"riegate\, v. t. imp.  p. p. variegated; p.
   pr.  vb. n. variegating. l. variegatus, p. p. of
   variegare to variegate; varius various + agere to move, make.
   see various, and agent.
   to diversify in external appearance; to mark with different
   colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with
   marble of different colors.
   1913 webster

         the shells are filled with a white spar, which
         variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone.
                                                  --woodward.
   1913 webster
see also:
variegated variegating various agent 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

variegated
     adj : having a variety of colors syn: varicolored, varicoloured
see also:
varicolored varicoloured 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

165 moby thesaurus words for "variegated":
   assorted, at odds, at variance, bicolor, bicolored, brindled,
   calico, capricious, changeable, changing, checked, checkered,
   choppy, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory,
   contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled,
   departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dichromatic, different,
   differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discolor,
   discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined,
   disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct,
   distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers,
   divers-colored, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic,
   flecked, freaked, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, heterogeneous,
   impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous,
   inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious,
   irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, many,
   many-colored, marbled, matching, medley, mercurial, monochromatic,
   monochrome, monochromic, motley, mottle, mottled, multicolor,
   multicolored, multicolorous, multifarious, multihued, mutable,
   nacreous, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, opalescent,
   opaline, parti-color, parti-colored, piebald, pied, pigmentary,
   pinto, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, polychromatic,
   polychrome, polychromic, prismal, prismatic, ragged, rainbow,
   rough, separate, separated, several, shot, shot through, skewbald,
   spasmodic, spattered, speckled, spectral, sporadic, spotted,
   stippled, streaked, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent,
   toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone,
   unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox,
   unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant,
   varicolored, varied, variform, various, varying, versicolor,
   versicolored, warm, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart

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