pentacolor
pentacolor adjective: having five colors.
Adjective
pentacolor (not comparable)
- Having five colors.
- FEMINIST ASTROLOGERS—pentacolor, hand-cast, interpreted horoscopes, $17.50.1976, Sportswoman, page 50, column 1
- Feminist Astrologers—attractive pentacolor, hand-cast birth chart, in-depth interpretation, $35.1978, Ms., page 101, column 1
- Synonyms:
- pentacolored, quincolor
Examples of pentacolor in a sentence
- Here’s a simple color-cued key to healthful eating that I call the pentacolor principle: At mealtime, try and include at least five differently colored foods.1982 January 13, Trisha Yeager, “Count the food colors”, in Standard-Speaker, volume 115, number 32,771, Hazleton, Pa., page 33, column 1:
- With the money the committee raises, they will light the field with 80-foot pentacolor poles holding 1500 watt quartz lights.1987 February 16, Ann Patterson-Rabon, “Blacksburg seeking lighted ball field”, in The Gaffney Ledger, volume 94, number 1, Gaffney, S.C....
- […]bicolor, tricolor, tetracolor, pentacolor, and multicolor formations, plus patterns in which all diagonals seem to have a different color configuration.1998, Techniques & Culture, page 122:
- Color patterns with pentacolor diagonals (Figure 5.3) include variations that employ wild card color blocks.2004, Anne Paul, “Symmetry Schemes on Paracas Necrópolis Textiles”, in Dorothy K. Washburn, editor, Embedded Symmetries, Natural and...
Synonyms of pentacolor
Origin of pentacolor
From penta- + color.
Questions about pentacolor
- What does pentacolor mean?
- Pentacolor means having five colors.
- How do you use pentacolor in a sentence?
- Here’s a simple color-cued key to healthful eating that I call the pentacolor principle: At mealtime, try and include at least five differently colored foods.
- What part of speech is pentacolor?
- Pentacolor is an adjective.
Words near pentacolor in the dictionary
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