quadricolored

English

Alternative forms

• quadricoloured

Etymology

From quadri- +‎ colored.

Adjective

quadricolored (not comparable)

1. Having four colors.
   • 1873, Michigan State Pomological Society, Annual Report of the Michigan State Pomological Society, volume 2, page 131:

     Its border is of tri-colored and quadricolored geranium leaves, intermingled with leaves of the highly tinted coleus and the hoary centaurea.

   • 1921, Luther Burbank, Gardening, page 321:

     It was called the quadricolored corn. Among the plants raised in the first season there were two stalks, and two only, that justified the name, their leaves being striped with yellow, white, crimson, and green.

   • 1930, Herbert Friedmann, Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony, United States Government Printing Office, pages 16–17:

     It has a broad, distanct black band on either side of the head and neck just above the white band, beginning back of the eye and extending nearly to the base of the long neck, giving the head and neck a quadricolored appearance laterally, dark brown above, then a band of black, then white, and then lighter brown below.

   • 1946, Gardeners' Chronicle of America, page 190:

     There are even tricolor or quadricolored leaved kinds and one that was popular a hundred years ago and named Mrs. Pollock is something I crave.

   • 1948, Petroleum Refiner, volume 27, page 417:

     The job order shown in Figure 1 is printed in quadricolored pads and distributed to all persons authorized to issue these orders.

   • 1952, United States Hydrographic Office, H.O. Pub, number 44, page 28:

     The distinguishing signal of Swedish ice breakers is a quadricolored pennant displayed at the yardarm by day and a violet light shown at the yardarm at night.

   • 1959, Carl Benjamin Boyer, The Rainbow from Myth to Mathematics, page 85:

     The quadricolored arc is formed in air when rays of the sun shining into a hollow cloud, are driven back toward the sun, just as when the sun shines on a water vase and the brightness is sent back onto the ceiling.

   • 1960, United States National Museum, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 111, page 253:

     The males are typically brightly tricolored, black, orange, and white; the females typically quadricolored, black and brown with some orange and white markings.

   • 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Reptiles, page 484:

     The snakes may be bicolored, tricolored, or even quadricolored.

   • 2012 May 22, Kelly Norris, A Guide to Bearded Irises: Cultivating the Rainbow for Beginners and Enthusiasts, Timber Press, →ISBN, page 43:

     Sure, I love elegant all-one-colored irises too, but spice it up with bi-, tri-, and quadricolored flowers, and now you’re talking.

Synonyms

• quadchromatic
• quadricolor
• tetracolored