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

"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

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

A picotee bloom and rose were gathered in a garden at Norwich. 26.—Mr.

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles

The large lip of this orchis is not fringed, but has a fine picotee edge.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

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