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Polychromatic adj. Showing a variety, or a change, of colors.

Polychromatic acid (Old Chem.), a substance obtained by the action of nitric acid on aloes.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... staining of the dry blood specimen, purely chemical staining processes are concerned, and therefore the polychromatic combination stain is possible ...

— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich

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... as he went. It pleased him to go jauntily across the lawn and reflect that all this smooth turf was his, to look at the wealth of well-tended flowers in his garden and know that all this polychromatic loveliness was bred in Lord Ashbridge's borders (and was graciously thrown open to the gaze of the admiring public on Sunday afternoon, when they were begged to keep off the grass), and that Lord Ashbridge was himself. He liked reminding himself that the towering ...

— Michael • E. F. Benson

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... silent as we went out into the plaza, which was still a riot of noise and polychromatic costumes. And my thoughts were as weltered as the scene ...

— Lone Star Planet • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

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... would be stiff with gilt embroidery. The spring offensive claimed him as an early victim. When be became an extensive purchaser of drab segments of fossilized soap, bottles of sticky brilliantine with a chemical odour, and postcards worked with polychromatic silk, the billet began to ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 28, 1919. • Various

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Words linked to "Polychromatic" : polychrome, polychromic, monochromatic, colorful, coloured