having or involving three colors; "trichromatic vision"; "a trichromatic printing process"; "trichromatic staining is the staining of tissue samples differentially in three colors"; "tricolor plumage"; "a tricolor process in photography"
a flag of three stripes, usually equal in size, arranged either horizontally (such as the Netherlands or Lithuania) or vertically (such as France, Italy, or Belgium) Those arranged vertically are sometimes called tribands Some similarly-arranged two-color designs (such as Canada and Peru) are also called tricolors
The Republic of Ireland flag of green, orange, and white; the white was meant to signify the peace between the Catholics (green) and the Protestants (orange)
Having three colors Said of hair on the back of a mammal when the hair has three bands each of a different color