variety

• WordNet 3.6
  • n variety noticeable heterogeneity "a diversity of possibilities","the range and variety of his work is amazing"
  • n variety a difference that is usually pleasant "he goes to France for variety","it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic"
  • n variety a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality "sculpture is a form of art","what kinds of desserts are there?"
  • n variety a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
  • n variety (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics "varieties are frequently recognized in botany"
  • n variety a collection containing a variety of sorts of things "a great assortment of cars was on display","he had a variety of disorders","a veritable smorgasbord of religions"
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• Interesting fact: Over 200 varieties of watermelons are grown in the U.S
• • Variety A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.
  • Variety An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.
  • Variety In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.
  • Variety Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.
  • Variety (Theaters) Such entertainment as in given in variety shows; the production of, or performance in, variety shows. "All sorts are here that all the earth yields! Variety without end.""But see in all corporeal nature's scene,
    What changes, what diversities , have been!"
  • Variety That which is various.
  • Variety The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. "Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty.""The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.""For earth hath this variety from heaven.""There is a variety in the tempers of good men."
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• Interesting fact: Germany produces more than 5,000 varieties of beer and has about 1,300 breweries in country
• • n variety In agriculture and horticulture, a group of cultivated plants which have the same characteristics. All plants which have been widely cultivated have given rise to many different forms and these are in general known as varieties. Illustrations are the varieties of strawberries, apples, corn, wheat, cotton, etc. ‘Variety,’ in this sense, is thus a generic word including races, strains, and clons. See race, 5 , strain, 1 , and clon.
  • n variety In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see rock), a division of a mode which recognizes the presence of subordinate mineral components.
  • n variety The state or character of being varied or various; intermixture of different things, or of things different in form, or a succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness; absence of monotony or uniformity; dissimilitude.
  • n variety Exhibition of different characteristics by one individual; many-sidedness; versatility.
  • n variety Variation; deviation; change.
  • n variety A collection of different things; a varied assortment.
  • n variety Something differing from others of the same general kind; one of many things which agree in their general features; a sort; a kind: as, varieties of rock, of wood, of land, of soil; to prefer one variety of cloth to another.
  • n variety In biology, with special reference to classification: A subspecies; a subdivision of a species; an individual animal or plant which differs, or collectively those individuals which differ, from the rest of its or their species, in certain recognizable particulars which are transmissible, and constant to a degree, yet which are not specifically distinctive, since they intergrade with the characters of other members of the same species; a race, especially a climatic or geographical race which arises without man's interference. See species, 5. As the biological conception of species excludes the notion of special creation, or of any original fixation of specific distinctions, so the same conception regards varieties as simply nascent species which may or may not be established; if established, varieties have become species in the process, as soon as the steps of that process are obliterated. A variety has in itself the making of a species, and all species are supposed to have thus been made. The distinction being always in degree only, and never in kind, the actual recognition of both varieties and species for the purposes of classification, nomenclature, and description is largely a matter of tact and experience. See trinomialism.
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• Interesting fact: The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• • n Variety va-rī′e-ti the quality of bring various: difference: many-sidedness, versatility: a collection of different things: one of a number of things nearly allied to each other: one or more individuals of a species, which, owing to accidental causes, differ from the normal form in minor points
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• Felix Mendelssohn

  

  “The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”
• Edward M. Forster

  

  “Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”
• Lynn Barber

  

  “The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.”
• Johnny Carson

  

  “If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.”
• Charles De Gaulle

  

  “How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?”
• Charles Horton Cooley

  

  “The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.”

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