picotee
English
Alternative forms
- picketee (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from French picoté (“marked with points”), past participle of picoter.
Noun
picotee (plural picotees)
- (botany) A flower (such as a carnation) whose margin is a different colour from the flower's basic colour.
Further reading
- “picotee”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Spanish
Verb
picotee
- inflection of picotear:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative