Particoloured:
- Made up of sections having different, often bright, colours. [Wiktionary]
And there wasn’t much out there for definitions of particoloured, I was surprised to say, although there was a blog called Particolour. Noted in “Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches,” Michael Le Page, NewScientist (10 December 2022, paywall):
They then set up 32 infrared cameras to monitor some of the stored nuts. They found two species of squirrels came to check the nuts or retrieve them: a subspecies of the Hainan flying squirrel called Hylopetes phayrei electilis and the particoloured flying squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger).
A fascinating article on these two species of flying squirrels chewing grooves in their food nuts in order to securely store them in tree forks.
