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Dichromatic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having or producing two colors; exhibiting or characterized by dichromatism. Also dichroic and bichromatic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having or exhibiting two colors.
  • adjective. Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. having two colors.
  • adjective. having a form of colorblindness in which only two of the three primary colors can be distinguished
  • adjective. having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
  • adjective. occurring or existing in two different ornamentations or colors, typically as a form of sexual dimorphism.
  • adjective. having two hues, either of which may be visible depending on both the concentration of the absorbing substance and the depth or thickness of the medium traversed, such as in pumpkin seed oil. A form of polychromatism.
  • adjective. exhibiting dichroism; dichroic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having two colors
  • adjective. of or relating to dichromatism
  • Word Usage
    "All the males of most species, and many of the females, are dichromatic, meaning they only have two kinds of cone cells."
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