The word "discolor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has changed color, for example, "The fabric had been discolored in the sun."
The cuckoo roller (Leptosomus discolor) also flies above the forest canopy, but it is looking for large insects and small lizards in the outermost foliage.
Its small white flowers are borne on a spike, as are those of the Southeast Asian species Anoectochilus roxburghii, A. sikkimensis, Dossinia marmorata, Ludisia discolor, and Zeuxine strateumatica (also found in southeastern North America).
A tea or infusion made from Fragaria (strawberries), Holodiscus discolor (ocean spray) flowers, and the bark of Malus fusca (crab apple) was used by Native Americans in Washington state to treat diarrhea.
The North American S. discolor is slightly smaller than the Eurasian species, which attain a maximum height of 7.5 metres.
Other species include the date plum (D. lotus), the black sapote (D. digyna), and the mabola (D. discolor), the last being cultivated for its tasty fruit, which is dark red to purple.
His skin began to discolor into the family disease, leucoderma; not painful or dangerous, just disfiguring.
The city advises on its site that "discolored water is safe to drink, but residents who are experiencing discolored water coming from the faucet should let the sediment settle before drinking".
The scientists noticed that the flash of the bomb had discolored concrete to a light reddish tint, had scaled off the surface of granite, and had scorched certain other types of building material, and that consequently the bomb had, in some places, left prints of the shadows that had been cast by its light.
At that point, according to Sullivan, all he had was "a pair of nostrils surrounded by a rim of shrivelled, shrunken, discolored cartilage".
Regent trickled the oozing inch-long gash with antiseptic and bound it with gauze and adhesive tape, whose excessive swaddling didn't make up for its being several years old; the tape was discolored, and barely stuck.
Here and there are skyscrapers built in the boom years of the sixties and seventies, their concrete carcasses discolored and crumbling.
