Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Colored

Colored , adjective

1.
Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
The lime rod, colored as the glede. — Chaucer
The colored rainbow arched wide. — Spenser
2.
Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. — Sir G. C. Lewis
His colored crime with craft to cloke. — Spenser
3.
Of some other color than black or white.
4.
(Ethnology) Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. Opposite of white and caucasian.
5.
(Botany) Of some other color than green.
Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. — Gray

In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is.