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polychromatic

adj
/ˌpɑlikɹəˈmætɪk/US/ˌpɒlikɹəʊˈmætɪk/UK

Etymology

From poly- + chromatic.

  1. derived from *gʰer-✻ — “to grind; to rub; to stroke; to remove”
  2. derived from χρωματικός — “relating to colour; one of the three types of tetrachord in Greek music”
  3. borrowed from chrōmaticus
  4. borrowed from chromatique — “chromatic”
  5. prefixed as polychromatic — “poly + chromatic”

Definitions

  1. Showing a variety, or a change, of colours

    Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours.

    • With our water goggles adjusted we gazed at the fishes displaying their polychromatic scales to the sea world, as, with true Puka-Pukan languor, they finned from coral to coral.
    • As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]

  2. Composed of more than one wavelength.

The neighborhood

Derived

polychromatic acid, polychromatically

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polychromatic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA