Paint"ed , a.
1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in
colors.
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Coleridge.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.
Painted beauty
(Zoöl.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa
Huntera), having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia
coccinea has brilliantly scarlet
bracts, and is common in meadows. -- Painted finch. See Nonpareil. --
Painted lady
(Zoöl.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly. -- Painted turtle
(Zoöl.), a common American freshwater tortoise
(Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.
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