tessellated
tessellated adjective: covered with tiles (pieces that are similarly shaped). Also the simple past and past participle of tessellate.
Adjective
tessellated (not comparable)
- Covered with tiles (pieces that are similarly shaped)
- The bat and the owl made it their home, the spider wove its dreary tapestry, the grass made its way through the tessellated floors, the moss grew over the untrodden pavement, and the ivy—the fragile and creeping ivy—was now the chief support of the battlements which it had overrun.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 7
- The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: […]1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3
Also used as
tessellated is also the simple past and past participle of tessellate.
Words formed from tessellated
Phrases with tessellated
Questions about tessellated
- What does tessellated mean?
- Tessellated means covered with tiles (pieces that are similarly shaped).
- What part of speech is tessellated?
- Tessellated is an adjective.
Words near tessellated in the dictionary
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