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Definition of Self-colored
1. Adjective. Of the same color throughout. "Solid color"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-colored
Literary usage of Self-colored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"From matings of belted bulls and belted cows 50 calves were produced, 7 of which
were self-colored (6 blacks, 1 red) and 43 belted. ..."
2. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"The other, 975, bred to self- colored males gave 4 self-colored young. ...
There is an excess of self-colored young, nevertheless the spotted variety of ..."
3. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"an albino male guinea-pig which has spotted ancestry, and she gave 2 spotted and
2 self-colored young, and possibly a third spotted young in a case of ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The reason for the name is this: When tulips are grown from seeds, the flowers
at first are usually self-colored; the same bulbs when grown for a few years ..."
5. Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-pigs and Rats by William Ernest Castle, Sewall Wright (1916)
"None of the colored individuals which I saw was self-colored; ... The unspotted
or "self-colored" varieties now kept by fanciers in Europe and America have ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"... parents produce no brown or brown mottled young and there is a continued
equality between the mottled and self-colored offspring of such parents. ..."
7. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1841)
"Dunlap, 576 Broadway, for the best twelve self-colored dahlias, ... Moses Van
Beuren, Brooklyn, for the second best self-colored dahlias—For the best six ..."
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