VARI'ETY, n. [L. varietas, from vario, to vary.] 1. Intermixture of different things, or of things different in form; or a succession of different things.Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty.The variety of colors depends on the composition of light.2. One thing of many which constitute variety. In this sense, it has a plural; as the varieties of a species.3. Difference; dissimilitude.There is a variety in the tempers of good men.4. Variation; deviation; change from a former state. [Little used.]5. Many and different kinds. The shopkeeper has a great variety of cottons and silks.He wants to do a variety of good things.6. In natural history, a difference not permanent or invariable, but occasioned by an accidental change; as a variety of any species of plant.Naturalists formerly erred very much in supposing an accidental variety of plants, animals or minerals, to be a distinct species. Ray has established a good test for varieties in botany. A plant is distinct, which propagates itself in its own form by its seed; but when the difference disappears in the new plant, it is only a variety. Variety then is a difference between individuals, not permanent nor important enough to constitute a distinct species; such as in size, color, fullness, curling, &c.7. Different sort; as varieties of soil or land. |
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