particoloured

English

Alternative forms

• particolored (US)
• parti-colored

Adjective

particoloured (comparative more particoloured, superlative most particoloured)

1. Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours.
   • 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 78, page 54:

     O foolish one! this molded earth is naught; / This particolored vault of heaven is naught; / Our sojourn in this seat of life and death / Is but one breath, and what is that but naught?

Synonyms

• motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Derived terms

• particoloured bat
• particoloured bear

Translations

made up of sections having different colours

• Greek:

  Ancient: ποικίλος (poikílos)

• Latin: versicolor
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• Maori: ingoingo
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-dhathach