varieties
Sayvuh-RY-i-teez/vəˈɹaɪ.ɪ.tiz/
- 1Plural of variety.
Tropical regions support countless varieties of orchids.
The farmer planted three varieties of wheat this season.
Note
The spelling follows the regular rule: a consonant before final -y turns it into -ies. Only the countable uses take a plural: kinds, strains and cultivars, the taxonomic rank below species, forms of a language, stamp variants. Variety meaning plain diversity stays singular. A handy construction names the kinds before the noun: junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties.
varieties is a form of variety
variety, noun: A number or collection of different things, especially ones that are not all the same. Full entry
- Forms
- varietyvarieties plural
- Spelling
- variety → varieties: change y to i, add -es
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