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TRICHROISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("trichroism" is a kind of...):
pleochroism (the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions)