tessellated

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. having a checkered or mottled appearance
  2. decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic“a tessellated pavement”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

patterned \patterned\ adj. Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors. [Narrower terms: banded, blotched, blotchy, splotched, brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby, burled, checked, checkered, dappled, mottled, dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled, figured, floral, flowered, laced, marbled, marbleized, moire, watered, pinstriped, pinstripe(prenominal), slashed, streaked, spotted, sprigged, streaked, streaky, striped, stripy, tessellated, veined, venose] plain, solid [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
Tessellated \Tes"sel*la`ted\, a.

1.Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement. [1913 Webster]

2.(Bot. & Zool.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf. [1913 Webster]

Tessellate \Tes"sel*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tessellated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tessellating.] [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar.] To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work. [1913 Webster]

The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

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