Meaning : Lacking hue or shades of grey. Part white and part black.
Example :
A black-and-white cow.
Black-and-white blooms.
Black-and-white stripes.
Meaning : Not having or not capable of producing colors.
Example :
Black-and-white film.
A black-and-white TV.
The movie was in black and white.
Synonyms : black and white
Meaning : Of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories.
Example :
He rejected a black-and-white world.
There are no black-and-white certainties.
There were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white.