picotee

American  

[pik-uh-tee] / ˌpɪk əˈti /

noun

1. a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.

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picotee British  

/ ˌpɪkəˈtiː /

noun

1. a type of carnation having pale petals edged with a darker colour, usually red

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adjective

1. like a picotee; with darker edges

Etymology

Origin of picotee

1720–30; < French picoté marked, pricked, past participle of picoter to mark with tiny points, derivative of picot picot; see -ee

Example Sentences

Did not she, in rude horse-play pelting a foolish guardsman with green apples, break a bell-glass that sheltered the picotee cuttings cherished of Jacob's and of Peggy's souls?

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

Let us suppose that our object is to obtain a true breeding strain of the pale purple picotee form.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall

Dianthus, the Margaret varieties, Dwarf Perpetual, Caryophyllus   semperflorens, Chinensis, dentosus hybridus, Heddewigii, imperialis,   laciniatus, plumarius, superbus dwarf, picotee, Comtesse de Paris.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

"This flower," he said, undoing the tissue paper of the package in his hand, "is the picotee, which keeps fresh five or six days longer than any parting pangs."

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

The pure-bred picotee appears in our F2 family though its parent was a purple bicolor, and its remoter ancestors whites for generations.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall