bicolor

[ bahy-kuhl-er ]

adjective

Also bicolored; especially British, bicoloured. having two colors: a bicolor flower.

noun

Origin of bicolor

From Latin, dating back to 1860–65; see origin at bi-¹, color

Here also is Cattleya bicolor Measuresiana, an exquisite example of a species always charming to my taste.
The Woodlands Orchids | Frederick Boyle
He makes the same remark for the allied forms (bicolor, saccharatus, etc.), which are often regarded as mere varieties.
Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De Candolle
They were small and often were collapsed in the individuals I dissected, but were most clearly seen in Iridoprocne bicolor.
Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae | Marion Anne Jenkinson
This may be readily seen by comparing the picture of the purple bicolor on Plate II.
Mendelism | Reginald Crundall Punnett
The horticultural characters of bicolor are much the same as those of stivalis.
Manual of American Grape-Growing | U. P. Hedrick

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