Tessellated
adj, verb
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Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of tessellate form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Covered with tiles (pieces that are similarly shaped) not-comparable
"The bat and the owl made it their home, the spider wove its dreary tapestry, the grass made its way through the tessellated floors, the moss grew over the untrodden pavement, and the ivy—the fragile and creeping ivy—was now the chief support of the battlements which it had overrun."
Adjective
- 1 decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic wordnet
- 2 having a checkered or mottled appearance wordnet
Example
More examples"The bat and the owl made it their home, the spider wove its dreary tapestry, the grass made its way through the tessellated floors, the moss grew over the untrodden pavement, and the ivy—the fragile and creeping ivy—was now the chief support of the battlements which it had overrun."
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