Meaning & use
dichromatic
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having or consisting of two colors, or relating to a form of color blindness in which only two of the three primary colors can be distinguished
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The butterfly's dichromatic wings shift between deep blue and black.
People with dichromatic vision often have trouble telling red from green.
A note on using this word
Dichromatic appears both in design and nature contexts (two-color patterns) and in science, where it describes a specific type of color vision deficiency.
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two-tonedbicolor
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