Made of small pieces inlaid to form a pattern; also, resembling such inlaid work.n. Mosaic work; inlaid work, especially in hard materials, as distinguished from inlays of wood, ivory, or the like.n. A piece of mosaic work: as, a Florentine mosaic; a Roman mosaic; a glass mosaic.n. Anything resembling a piece of mosaic work in composition.n. See the adjectives.Relating to Moses, the Hebrew lawgiver, or to the writings and institutions attributed to him.In biology, pertaining to or characterized by the presence of antagonistic or mutually exclusive parental characters in different parts of the body or of the germ-cells.n. In biology, an organism which has antagonistic or mutually exclusive parental characteristics in different parts of its body.To work up into a mosaic; represent in or decorate with mosaic patterns. Also mosaick.