Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. "As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean."
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(Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.
Painted beauty (Zool.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors,
Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows.
