单词 | discolorous |
释义 | discolorousadj. 1. Botany and Zoology. Of a different or contrasting colour from an adjacent or surrounding part. ΚΠ 1832 J. F. Stephens Illustr. Brit. Entomol. V. 414 The elytra mostly discolorous to the head and thorax. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 554 Usually they [sc. apothecia of lichens] are discolorous, and may be black, brown, yellowish, or also less frequently rose-coloured, rusty-red, orange-reddish, saffron, or of various intermediate shades. 1947 Amer. Midland Naturalist 37 78 Hymenophore yellow, with discolorous pores. 1978 T. B. Croat Flora Barro Colorado Island 787/1 Seeds..disk-shaped, less than 1 mm wide, brown, the margin discolorous and becoming sticky on wetting. 1997 R. Schodde & I. J. Mason Zool. Catal. Austral. XXXVII. ii. 115 The affinities of [Barnardius zonarius] macgillivrayi..with barnardi, based on head and cheek pattern and discolorous back and rump [etc.]. 2. Botany. Of different colours; having parts of different colours, particoloured; esp. (of a leaf) having the upper and lower surfaces of different colours. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] fawa700 medleyc1350 freckledc1380 motleyc1380 pied1382 specked1382 vary1382 partyc1385 parted1393 peckleda1400 polymitec1425 sere-colouredc1425 vairc1425 discoloured?1440 motleyed1447 varying1488 sheld1507 fleckered1508 piet1508 mellay1515 particoloured1530 pickled1552 varied1578 mingled1580 partly coloured1582 chequered1592 medley-coloured1593 mingle-coloured1593 piebald1594 feathered1610 changeable1612 particolour1612 enamelled1613 variousa1618 pie-coloured1619 jaspered1620 gangean1623 versicolour1628 patchwork1634 damasked1648 variously-coloureda1660 variegateda1661 agated1665 varicoloured1665 damaska1674 various-coloureda1711 pieted1721 versicoloured1721 diversicoloured1756 mosaic1776 harlequin1779 spanged1788 calico1807 piety1811 varied-coloured1811 discolorate1826 heterochromous1842 jaspé1851 discolor1859 discolorous1860 jasperoid1876 damascened1879 heterochromatic1895 variotinted1903 batik1914 varihued1921 rumbled1930 damasky1931 pepper-and-salt1940 partihued1959 the world > plants > appearance of plant > plant defined by colour or marking > [adjective] > having particular type marking or colouring streaked1600 marbled1629 muscadine1646 agated1665 silver-cupped1688 red-top1705 tessellated1723 lineate1777 fancy1793 red-tipped1800 areolated1802 white-lipped1813 variegated1818 pennaceous1819 streak-flowered1822 limbate1826 unbroken1829 sanguine-heart1840 rivulose1843 pencilled1846 areolate1847 notate1857 sigillate1858 discolor1859 discolorous1860 fumose1866 fumous1866 tricolour1866 unnetted1869 1860 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5 271 The discolorous feature of its leaves is common to every species of this genus. 1896 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 32 18 Disk and rays concolorous, yellow, red, or purple, or if discolorous the disk-flowers yellow or greenish and the rays red or purple. 1940 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 2. 58 Vangueriopsis discolor and V. Sillitoei differ from all other species of the genus in their discolorous leaves. 1993 T. J. Tutin et al. Flora Europaea (ed. 2) I. 62/2 Leaves..greenish and shiny on upper surface, white-tomentose beneath, therefore distinctly discolorous. 2002 Kew Bull. 57 698 Leaves..slightly discolorous, mid-green above and paler beneath. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1832 |
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