tessellated
(a.)棋盤格的,鑲嵌的花樣的
Tes·sel·late v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tessellated p. pr. & vb. n. Tessellating.] To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. --Macaulay.
Tes·sel·la·ted a.
1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.
2. Bot. & Zool. Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.
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tessellated
adj 1: having a checkered or mottled appearance
2: decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted
together; "a mosaic floor"; "a tessellated pavement" [syn:
mosaic]