picotee

n. 花边香石竹

词形变化

picotees 复数 picotees

别名

picketee

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A flower (such as a carnation) whose margin is a different colour from the flower's basic colour.

    生物 植物学

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados Louis Carlyle's voice was wonderfully suggestive in its phases of the varying aspects of the speaker himself, and at that moment it conveyed a portrait of Mr Carlyle in his very best early-morning business manner […] . In its crisp yet benign complacency Carrados could almost have sworn to resplendent patent boots, the current shade in suede gloves and a carefully selected picotee.

词源

Borrowed from French picoté (“marked with points”), past participle of picoter.

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