a. 1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. [ 1913 Webster ]
As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum, Syn.Chrysanthemum coccineum, Tanacetum coccineum, pyrethrum
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