picotee

{{short description|Type of flowers of two different colors}}

{{For|the British warship|HMS Picotee (K63)}}

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Picotee describes flowers whose edge is a different colour from the flower's base colour.[http://www.daylilies.org/ahs_dictionary/picotee.html Daily Dictionary entry for picotee (URL accessed June 16, 2006)] The word originates from the French picoté, meaning 'marked with points'.The Oxford Dictionary of English, page 1331. Oxford University Press, 2005.