Category:Painted

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.)

Defn: 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.