variegator (variegator)

[ Pious variers from the church. Tennyson, Sea Dreams. varietal (vā-ri'e-tal), a. [ variet - y + -al.] In biol . , having the character of a zoölogical or botanical variety; subspecific, or of the character of a subspecies; racial, with reference to geographical variation; of or pertaining to varieties; variational: as, varietal characters; varietal differences or distinctions. See varia bility, 2, variation, 8, and variety, 6. varietally (vā-ri'e-tal-i), adv. In biol., in a varietal manner or relation; as a variety; to a varietal extent only; subspecifically. J. W. Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 174. variety (va-ri'e-ti), n.; pl. varieties (-tiz). [Early mod. E. also varietie, variete; tude. IMG:content-1711.png:[blocks in formation] -inel.] In bot., of or pertaining to the genus Variolar i a; pustulate. recognition of both varieties and species for the purvariolarioid (vā"ri-o-lā'ri-oid), a. [ Variolar i a poses of cla ification, nomenclature, and description is + -oid .] In bot . , resembling or pertaining to largely a matter of tact and experience. See trinomialism. the genus Variolar i a . (b) A race, as of cultivated plants or domestic variolate (vā'ri-o-lāt), a. [ variola + animals; a stock; a strain; a sport; a breed: -atel .] 1. In entom . , resembling a scar of small a general term, covering all the modifications pox: noting impre ions or foveæ when they which may be impre ed upon animals and have a central prominence.-2. In bot ., thick- plants by artificial selection. See the more disly marked with pustules or pits, as in small- tinctive words, especially race , n ., 5 (b). Variepox. ties of this grade seldom reach the permanence of those variolated (vā'ri-o-lā-ted), a. [ variolate + attributed to natural selection, and tend to revert if left to themselves, though the actual differences may be -ed2.] Inoculated with the virus of smallpox. dus.) In like manner the term variety is applied to inorganic substances of the same kind which are susceptible extensive annual migrations, and are therefore not continually subjected to modifying local influences. Geographical variation, under any given degree of climatic difference, is strongly favored by insulation, or anything which tends to a sort of natural in-and-in breeding of comparatively few individuals, as is well illustrated in the fauna and flora of islands, where geographical varieties tend to develop speedily into species distinct from those of neighboring islands. Mountain-ranges and desert areas always develop a fauna and flora of a facies peculiar to themselves. The main climatic factors in the evolution of geographical varieties are relative temperature and relative humidity. - Variety hybrid, a mongrel resulting from cro ing individuals of opposite sexes of different varieties of the same species. They are much more numerous than hybrids between different species, and are usually very easy to bring about with proper selection of the stocks from which breed. They are also usually fertile, which as a rule is not the case with the progeny of thoroughly distinct species. variety-planer (vā-ri'e-ti-plā"nėr), n. See molding - machine, 1.