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polychromatic

, polychromic, polychromous

1. having various or changing colours

2. (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) containing radiation with more than one wavelength

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Polychromatic

Having or exhibiting a variety of colors.

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Nevertheless, without data from defined crosses between different color morphs, it is impossible to determine whether polychromatism in P.

Color polymorphism and genetic structure in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus

Widespread polychromatism in female sunangel hummingbirds (Heliangelus: Trochilidae).

A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of sexual dichromatism in tanagers (thraupidae): the role of female versus male plumage

Since a good number of those regionalist stories put social, moral, or ideological goals before artistic ones, the expressive "formalism" they make such a show of, that aestheticism that replaces ideas with the eccentricity and polychromatism of the language that enfolds them, produces a certain incongruity that deprives them of persuasive power, denounces them as fraudulent.