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adj. Covered with pieces that are similarly shaped.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of tessellate.

adj. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered.

adj. Marked like a checkerboard.

Formed of small pieces of stone, glass, or the like, generally square or four-sided in plan, and long in proportion to their breadth. See tessera, 1.

In botany, checkered; having the colors arranged in small squares, thus resembling a tessellated pavement.

In zoology, checkered or reticulated in a regular manner, by either the coloration or the formation of the parts of a surface.

adj. decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic

adj. having a checkered or mottled appearance

"Such as are viviparous are hair-coated, and such as are oviparous are covered with a kind of tessellated hard substance; and the tessellated bits of this substance are, as it were, similar in regard to position to a scale."

adorned    decorated    patterned   

tessellated epithelium    tessellated cells    tessellated work   

checkered   

tessellate