Having two distinct colors; displaying or characterized by dichroism or the appearance of two different colors.
From Greek 'di-' (two) + 'chroa' (skin color) + '-ous' (adjective suffix). An older variant of 'dichromic,' this term appears in early mineralogical texts from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The word 'dichroous' is like an older sibling to 'dichromic'—both describe the same phenomenon, but dichroous appears more often in Victorian-era scientific papers!
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