polychrome

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polychrome - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Polychrome \Pol"y*chrome\, n. [Poly- + Gr. ? color.] (Chem.)
     Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent
     solutions. [R.]
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  Polychrome \Pol"y*chrome\, a. [Cf. F. polychrome.]
     Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome
     printing.
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polychrome - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  polychrome
      adj 1: having or exhibiting many colors [syn: polychromatic,
             polychrome, polychromic]
      n 1: a piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors
      v 1: color with many colors; make polychrome [syn: polychrome,
           polychromize, polychromise]

polychrome - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "polychrome":
     bicolor, bicolored, colorful, colory, crazy, daedal, dichroism,
     dichromatic, dichromatism, discolor, divers-colored, freehand,
     graphic, harlequin, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, medley,
     monochrome, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous,
     multihued, painty, parti-color, parti-colored, pastose,
     photographic, pictorial, picturable, pictural, picturesque,
     polychromatic, polychromatism, polychromic, prismal,
     riot of colors, scenographic, scumbled, shot, shot through,
     spectral, thunder and lightning, trichroism, trichromatic,
     trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored,
     variegated, variegation, versicolor, versicolored