Usually means: Changes color when viewed differently.
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  1. pleochroic: Merriam-Webster
  2. pleochroic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pleochroic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pleochroic: Vocabulary.com
  5. pleochroic: Wordnik
  6. pleochroic: Wiktionary
  7. pleochroic: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Pleochroic, pleochroic: Dictionary.com
  9. Pleochroic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pleochroic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pleochroic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. pleochroic: Rhymezone
  13. Pleochroic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pleochroic: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pleochroic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. pleochroic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Pleochroic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pleochroic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleochroic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. pleochroic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pleochroic)

▸ adjective:  (geology) Of, pertaining to, or having the property of pleochroism.

Similar:
halochromic, trichroic, acidochromic, photochromatic, poecilitic, stereochromic, pleiochasial, stenochromic, chromophoric, metachromatic, more...

Opposite:
aplouchroic, monochroic, achroic

Types:
trichroic, dichroic, monochroic, more...

Phrases:
pleochroic halos, pleochroic halo, more...

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Similar:
halochromic, trichroic, acidochromic, photochromatic, poecilitic, stereochromic, pleiochasial, stenochromic, chromophoric, metachromatic, more...

Opposite:
aplouchroic, monochroic, achroic

Types:
trichroic, dichroic, monochroic, more...

Phrases:
pleochroic halos, pleochroic halo, more...



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