tetracolored

See also: tetra-colored

English

Alternative forms

• tetra-colored

Etymology

From tetra- +‎ colored.

Adjective

tetracolored (not comparable)

1. Having four colors.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1998 January, Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, volume 38, number 76, page 165:

     In partial heterochromia iridis the iris is either tricolored or tetracolored.

   • 2004 June 8, Victor Pacheco, Sergio Solari, Paul M. Velazco, A New Species of Carollia (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the Andes of Peru and Bolivia (Occasional Papers; number 236), Museum of Texas Tech University, →ISSN, page 9, column 2:

     […] dorsal hairs are tetracolored in C. colombiana, but tricolored in C. manu;

   • 2019, Tomohiro Seki, Hajime Ito, “Gold Isocyanide Complexes Exhibiting Luminescent Mechanochromism and Phase Transitions”, in Hiroko Yamada, Shiki Yagai, editors, Light-Active Functional Organic Materials, Jenny Stanford Publishing, section 2 (Emission Control of Aryl Gold Isocyanide Complexes), subsection 1 (Aryl Gold Isocyanide Complexes), page 136:

     (c) Tetracolored Mechanochromism

Synonyms

• quadchromatic
• quadricolor
• quadricolored