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tricolor

tricolor

3.7
Having three different colors, like a flag or a bird
  • adjective
  • /ˈtraɪˌkʌlər/
translation icon : tricolor
  • For the school event, they decorated the stage with tricolor bunting in red, white, and blue.

And then, Oh my word, tricolor beach.

Examples

  • The artist used a tricolor palette, mixing red, blue, and yellow to create vibrant paintings.

  • In 1967, the MTA moved past the tricolor theme used on the Salomon and earlier maps and began to use individual colors to illustrate individual lines.

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  • I see that there is some tricolor slaw over there that that looks.

  • Right now the tricolor is made-up of three strips of color, white, blue, and red.

  • I'm purple with I'm a tricolor aura.

  • There's not a lot to say about the large print tricolor keyboard from Azio that isn't in its name.

  • The country's tricolor flag features three horizontal stripes in green, white, and orange.

Synonyms

tricolored
vstricolor
  • US
1 3.5

Having three different colors shown together in a pattern

refers more generally to involving three distinct colors not only patterns
trichrome
vstricolor
  • Specialized
9.7

Made of three colors

is the same idea phrased as an adjective stressing three distinct colors
trichromatic
vstricolor
  • Specialized
8.4

Having three colors, for example in vision or printing

is the general concept of having three distinct colors without domain focus

Compounds

Ipomoea tricolor
  • Specialized
9.3

A climbing plant with bright blue flowers that open in the morning

tricolor television tube
  • Archaic
6.1

A part of a television that uses three colors to make pictures

tricolor tube
  • Archaic
7.8

A part inside a color television that makes red, green and blue pictures

Sparaxis tricolor
  • Specialized
9.9

A bright garden flower from South Africa with yellow petals and purple spots

Viola tricolor hortensis
  • Specialized
9.3

A small garden flower with soft, colorful, velvety petals

Viola tricolor
  • Specialized
9.0

A small wild flower from Europe that many garden pansies come from

Surface Forms

tricolor positive

Morphology

tricolor = color (transparent) = tri + color

Standard, productive formation: 'tri-' (three) + 'color' gives the adjectival sense 'having three colours', which is easily inferred.

Etymology

Tricolor comes from the parts tri- meaning 'three' and color meaning 'colour', the same 'tri-' you see in trio or triangle. So something called tricolor simply has three different colours.