Sciences
- Variety (botany), a formal rank in botanical taxonomic nomenclature
- Variety (cybernetics), the number of possible states of a system or of an element of the system
- Variety (linguistics), a concept that includes, for instance, dialects, standard language and jargon
- Plant variety (law), a legal rather than taxonomic term for a cultivar or hybrid protected by patent law
- "Variety", an informal (and incorrect and ambiguous) rather than taxonomic term for cultivar in horticulture
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