quadricolored

alternative quadricoloured

1. not comparableHaving four colors.

   The job order shown in Figure 1 is printed in quadricolored pads and distributed to all persons authorized to issue these orders.

   1948, Petroleum Refiner, volume 27, page 417

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   Its border is of tri-colored and quadricolored geranium leaves, intermingled with leaves of the highly tinted coleus and the hoary centaurea.

   1873, Michigan State Pomological Society, Annual Report of the Michigan State Pomological Society, volume 2, page 131

   It was called the quadricolored corn. Among the plants raised in the first season there were two stalks, and two only, that justified the name, their leaves being striped with yellow, white, crimson, and green.

   1921, Luther Burbank, Gardening, page 321

   It has a broad, distanct black band on either side of the head and neck just above the white band, beginning back of the eye and extending nearly to the base of the long neck, giving the head and neck a quadricolored appearance laterally, dark brown above, then a band of black, then white, and then lighter brown below.

   1930, Herbert Friedmann, Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony, United States Government Printing Office, pages 16–17

   There are even tricolor or quadricolored leaved kinds and one that was popular a hundred years ago and named Mrs. Pollock is something I crave.

   1946, Gardeners' Chronicle of America, page 190

   The distinguishing signal of Swedish ice breakers is a quadricolored pennant displayed at the yardarm by day and a violet light shown at the yardarm at night.

   1952, United States Hydrographic Office, H.O. Pub, number 44, page 28

   Synonyms: quadchromatic, quadricolor, tetracolored