Joseph's coat
noun
1
: a coat of many colors
a country as dappled and patchy as Joseph's coat
T. H. Fielding
T. H. Fielding2
: any of certain plants with variegated foliage: such as
a
: a tampala with red and green variegated leaves grown as an ornamental
b
: coleus
Word History
Etymology
after Joseph, Old Testament patriarch; from his coat of many colors (Genesis 37:3—AV)
- orange shellac
- orange sneezeweed
- orange spoon
- orange star
- orange swallowwort
- orange tip
- orange tortrix
- orange vermilion
- orange wine
- orange worm
- orange-blossom orchid
- orange-crowned warbler
- orange-flower water
- orange-peel bucket
- orange-rufous
- orange-sucker
- orange-tawny
- orange-tree butterfly
- orangeade
- orangeades
- orangeado
- orangebird
- orangecup lily
- orangeism
- orangeisms