Paint·ed, a.
 1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.
 As idle as a painted ship
 Upon a painted ocean.   --Coleridge.
 2. 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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 painted cup
      n : any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense
          spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts
          [syn: Indian paintbrush]