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DICHROMATIC

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having two colors

Example:

a bicolored postage stamp

Synonyms:

bichrome; bicolor; bicolored; bicolour; bicoloured; dichromatic

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to dichromatism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

dichromatism (a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision))

Derivation:

dichromatism (a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision))

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