polychromatic
Americanadjective
adjective
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having various or changing colours
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(of light or other electromagnetic radiation) containing radiation with more than one wavelength
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Consisting of or related to radiation of more than one wavelength.
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Of or having many colors.
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Compare monochromatic
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Origin of polychromatic
Example Sentences
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Eyelash vipers are famously polychromatic, which means their appearances can vary widely, even among snakes born in the same litter.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024
Eyelash vipers are also famous for another feature: they are polychromatic.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2024
Abdiel’s is more fluid, polychromatic, drawing from other dance wells, a different set of accumulated experience.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
They fashioned dark wood, brass, polychromatic tile and plaster painted peacock blue into an exuberant lounge that radiates a lack of interest in midcentury minimalism.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020
Bewitched as by the spinning of a polychromatic top, he could not leave the Island.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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