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/pˈeɪntəd kəp/ Listen

adjective

Painted adj.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. "As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean."

(Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.

Painted beauty (Zool.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors,

Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows.

Painted finch. See Nonpareil.

Painted lady (Zool.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.

Painted turtle (Zool.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

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Etymology of 'Painted cup'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Painted cup" Quotes from Famous Books

... their rounded heads like the waves of a big sea. There were many lovely flowers, vetches of several kinds, blue, white, and pencilled, twining among the grass. A beautiful white-belled flower, that was like the "Morning glory," (Convolvulus major,) and scarlet-cups [FN: Erichroma, or painted cup] in abundance, with roses in profusion. The bottom of this ravine was strewed in places with huge blocks of black granite, cushioned with thick green moss; it opened out into a wide flat, similar to the one at the mouth of the valley of the Big Stone. [FN: The mouth of this ravine is ...

— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill