varia

American  

[vair-ee-uh] / ˈvɛər i ə /

plural noun

1. miscellaneous items, especially a miscellany of literary works.

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varia British  

/ ˈvɛərɪə /

plural noun

1. a collection or miscellany, esp of literary works

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Etymology

Origin of varia

1925–30; < New Latin, Latin, neuter plural of varius various

Example Sentences

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varia

Olha do Bandá asilhas que se esmaltão Da varia cor, que pinta o rosco fruto, As aves, variadas, que aly saltão, Da verde Noz tomando seu tributo.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa

In Coronilla varia, and in several other species of Coronilla, there is no nectar in the staminal tube or in the tube of the corolla.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin

Barred Owl: Strix varia varia Barton.—This is a local resident in eastern Kansas, in heavy woodland.

From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston

“Euterpe soboles hoc est emblemata varia, &c.” with stanzas in Latin and German to each print.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

Alston says, "The green herb—seeds and all—stinks intolerably of bugs"; and Hoffman admonishes, "Si largius sumptura fuerit semen non sine periculo e suâ sede et statu demovet, et qui sumpsere varia dictu pudenda blaterant."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie