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tetracolored

tetracolored adjective: having four colors.

Adjective

tetracolored (not comparable)

  1. Having four colors.
    • Count De Prorak gave a highly interesting account of his adventures and his findings in that part of the Dark Continent bordering on the Mediterranean, and showed two reels of excellent tetracolored motion pictures he had taken in the regions he had explored in recent years.1951 January 11, “Dads, Sons Dine; Enjoy Explorer’s Talk and Movies”, in Ridgewood Herald-News, sixty-second year, number 2, Ridgewood, N.J., page 2, column 5
    • In partial heterochromia iridis the iris is either tricolored or tetracolored.1998 January, Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, volume 38, number 76, page 165

Synonyms of tetracolored

Forms of tetracolored

alternative formtetra-colored

Origin of tetracolored

From tetra- + colored.

Questions about tetracolored

What does tetracolored mean?
Tetracolored means having four colors.
What part of speech is tetracolored?
Tetracolored is an adjective.

Words near tetracolored in the dictionary

  1. tetraclones
  2. tetracoccous
  3. tetracola
  4. tetracolon
  5. tetracolons
  6. tetracolored
  7. tetracolpate
  8. tetracolpates
  9. tetracolporate
  10. tetracomplex
  11. tetracomplexes

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