dichromatic
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1. dichromatic - Adjective
2. dichromatic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having or exhibiting two colors.
Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.
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a bicolor flower
a bicolored postage stamp
For example, the dichromatic white LEDs have the best luminous efficacy (120 lm/W), but the lowest color rendering capability.
Cone monochromacy can also be a result of having more than one type of dichromatic color blindness.
Humans have three different types of cones ( trichromatic vision ) while most other mammals lack cones with red sensitive pigment and therefore have poorer (dichromatic) colour vision.
The term dichromatic is also used in this sense.