Overview of noun calico

The noun calico has 1 sense

• calico -- (coarse cloth with a bright print)

Overview of adj calico

The adj calico has 2 senses

• calico -- (made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned; "calico dresses"; "a calico cat")


• motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured -- (having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies")