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pentacolored

pentacolored adjective: having five colors.

Adjective

pentacolored (not comparable)

  1. Having five colors.
    • There were pentacolored cushions woven out of dragon hair, rugs whose borders were silk brocaded, couches made out of long elephants’ tusks, and mattresses plainted with purplish silk matting.[…]The story is about a handsome and amorous fisherman who once failed to catch a fish for three days, but...1965, Two Chinese Sex Classics, pages 23 and 91
    • Two wildlife sanctuaries extinguished another, longer held, appetite – to meet Australia’s fauna. At the better of the two, Oasis Gardens, gravel paths sneaking through three acres of lush greenery led to cages of pentacolored birds, kangaroos of all ages and sizes, and irritable emus (one of which...1973 April 5, Dick Glovsky, “Brisbane: Calm, Quiet And Cuddly Koalas”, in The Newton Graphic, page two, column 2

Examples of pentacolored in a sentence

  • Cover illustration: Ddaaddee, Lucky Pentacolored Flag (adapted from a photograph taken by Hu Geshan).2014, A Grammar of Prinmi: Based on the Central Dialect of Northwest Yunnan, China (Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the...
  • In the nine layers of heaven above we smelled the aroma of flowers, / And in pentacolored clouds responded to laughing sounds.2017, Stephen H. West, “The Pains of Pleasure: The Lanterns of Kaifeng”, in Joseph S. C. Lam, Shuen-fu Lin, Christian de Pee, Martin...

Synonyms of pentacolored

Origin of pentacolored

From penta- + colored.

Questions about pentacolored

What does pentacolored mean?
Pentacolored means having five colors.
How do you use pentacolored in a sentence?
Cover illustration: Ddaaddee, Lucky Pentacolored Flag (adapted from a photograph taken by Hu Geshan).
What part of speech is pentacolored?
Pentacolored is an adjective.

Words near pentacolored in the dictionary

  1. pentacid
  2. pentacle
  3. pentacles
  4. pentacoccous
  5. pentacolor
  6. pentacolored
  7. pentacontagon
  8. pentacontagons
  9. pentacontahedron
  10. pentacontaheptachoron
  11. pentacontaheptachorons

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