From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
patterned \patterned\ adj.
Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.
[Narrower terms: {banded}, {blotched, blotchy, splotched},
{brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby}, {burled}, {checked,
checkered}, {dappled, mottled}, {dotted, flecked, specked,
speckled, stippled}, {figured}, {floral, flowered}, {laced},
{marbled, marbleized}, {moire, watered}, {pinstriped,
pinstripe(prenominal)}, {slashed, streaked}, {spotted},
{sprigged}, {streaked, streaky}, {striped, stripy},
{tessellated}, {veined, venose}] {plain, solid}
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tessellated \Tes"sel*la`ted\, a.
1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a
tessellated pavement.
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2. (Bot. & Zool.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a
tessellated leaf.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tessellate \Tes"sel*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tessellated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Tessellating}.] [L. tessellatus tessellated.
See {Tessellar}.]
To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
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The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the
fashion of France. --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tessellated
adj 1: having a checkered or mottled appearance
2: decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted
together in a mosaic; "a tessellated pavement"
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