Marked with a pattern of alternating squares, like those on a checkerboard.
Past participle of 'checkerboard' used as a verb, emerging in the 19th-20th centuries to describe anything divided into alternating square patterns.
A checkerboarded landscape—with different land uses alternating in a patchwork—creates ecological problems because wildlife can't move freely between habitats.
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