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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1695 having a checkered appearance

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of or resembling mosaic. 2 Bot. & Zool. regularly chequered. Etymology: L tessellatus or It. tessellato (as TESSELLATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tessellated Tes"sel*la`ted, a. 1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement. 2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. --Macaulay.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Checkered, inlaid, mosaic.