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Variety may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Botany and horticulture

• Variety (botany), a formal rank, in taxonomic nomenclature, below subspecies
• Colloquially (and historically):
  • Cultivar, especially of grapes and rice
  • Hybrid (biology), more generally
  • Any form (botany) (a taxonomic rank below variety)
• Plant variety (law), a non-taxonomic term of legal recognition

Businesses and organizations

• Variety, the Children's Charity, international charity to help children with special needs
• Variety Cruises, a cruise line
• Variety (magazine), an entertainment industry newspaper
• Variety Wholesalers, a retail store owner operating in the southeastern United States

Mathematics and systems

• Algebraic variety, the set of solutions of a system of polynomial equations
• Variety (cybernetics), the number of possible states of a system or of an element of the system
• Variety (universal algebra), classes of algebraic structures defined by equations in universal algebra

Other uses

• Variety (linguistics), a specific form of a language (or of a dialect continuum)
• Variety, a term in coin collecting
• Variety Jones, pseudonym of a person closely involved with the founding of the darknet market Silk Road

See also

• Variability (disambiguation)
• Variant (disambiguation)
• Variation (disambiguation)
• Unity in variety

• All pages with titles beginning with Variety
• All pages with titles containing variety