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quincolor

quincolor adjective: having five colors.

Adjective

quincolor (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having five colors.
    • QUINCOLOR FLAG OF CHINA RAISED / It Flies Only Two or Three Minutes Over the Legation in Washington. / The red, white, blue, green and yellow flag of the new Chinese republic was raised over the legation in this city for the first time yesterday, the Chinese new year, according to the old calendar...1912 February 20, The Detroit Free Press, volume 77, number 148, Detroit, Mich., page 3, column 6
    • There are about three hundred of these distributed by color as follows: 136 violet, 71 red, 33 incarnats, 2 rose, 6 white, 36 piquettes (picoties), 9 tricolor, a quadricolor and a quincolor.1927, Papers Presented at the International Conference on Flower and Fruit Sterility, page 42

Synonyms of quincolor

Origin of quincolor

From quin- + color.

Questions about quincolor

What does quincolor mean?
Quincolor means having five colors.
What part of speech is quincolor?
Quincolor is an adjective.

Words near quincolor in the dictionary

  1. Quincies
  2. Quincieux
  3. quincite
  4. Quincke's edema
  5. quinclorac
  6. quincolor
  7. quinconazole
  8. quincubital
  9. quincunces
  10. quincuncial
  11. quincuncially

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