- variant (of/on something)
a thing that is a slightly different form or type of something else 变种;变体;变形 This game is a variant of baseball. 这种运动是由棒球演变而来的。 a variant of the original experiment 原始实验的变体 a variant on a familiar theme 熟悉主题的变体
Oxford Collocations DictionaryVariant is used after these nouns:- spelling
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘tending to vary’): from Old French, literally ‘varying’, present participle of varier or Latin variare, from varius ‘diverse’ . The noun dates from the mid 19th cent.