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Appearance with regard to color
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coloration
Word definitions for coloration in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music" [syn: color , colour , colouration ] appearance with regard to color; "her healthy coloration" [syn: colouration ] choice and use of colors (as by an ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Coloration may refer to: Color , the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others, along with any variation, quality, or property thereof Color gradient , a range of position-dependent colors Animal ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As far as Poulton was concerned, the fact that many animals possessed protective coloration proved the effectiveness of natural selection. ▪ But some edible insects mimic the bright coloration to throw off their enemies. ▪ Echeverias ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or art of coloring. 2 The quality of being colored. 3 (context music English) A notational devise for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation); or 4 (context ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from French coloration (16c.), from Late Latin colorationem (nominative coloratio ) "act or fact of coloring," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin colorare "to color, to get tanned," from color (see color (n.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coloration \Col`or*a"tion\, n. The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. --Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. --Darwin.
Usage examples of coloration.
Callisians somewhat resembled Terran hymenoptera in shape, general coloration, and their ability to deliver a potent sting.
Schubert, who in the symphony was classic to the very highest degree, and a tone poet gifted lyrically not less than Mozart himself, a composer whose ideas have equal refinement and grace with those of Mozart, together with a certain charm peculiarly their own, and an instinct for musical coloration, which has never found its superior.
I have received from all parts of India and Burmah, and in a considerable number of living specimens which I have examined, I have observed amongst adult animals so much difference in size and intensity of coloration that I have found it impossible to retain the muntjac of Java and Sumatra as a distinct species.
They reached the first shaggy line of snow-clad conifers and were pausing there, trying to determine where the route now led, when far ahead of them up the slope, a great burst of sound came roaring and a thin column of ocherish fuming matter shot up toward the sky, flattened at the top, changed coloration rapidly toward mottled red, then seemed to sag, drifting down toward the earth again.
All pillars, no matter what their size, displayed coloration that revealed their earthly personalities, talents and spiritual tendencies.
It was glossy black, with golden socklike coloration on the two hind legs.
The speaker was a large male dolphin with the mottled gray coloration of one of the Stenos sub-breeds.
The surplus value accumulation of larval feeding gives way to lavish expenditure: the extravagant coloration of the butterflies, the coprophilic copulation of houseflies and others.
Here, in this massive chamber, he saw the same wide variety of coloration, which Lurt had told him almost certainly had resulted from prolonged periods of geographic isolation for each color group, assuming, as Mare had asserted, that they were indeed cross fertile.
The dragons had not been so choosy that time, and it had been concluded that protective coloration would only work if the most lurid hues were used.
When she saw an escarpment with a particular pattern of coloration in the strata, her heart leaped.
Only later would the hair develop the dark and light bars of the typical agouti coloration of an adult wolf -- if it would at all.
Sometimes in the streams which fed the lake of Ntah placer-nuggets turned up, softer than stone ought to be, which after repeated hammering showed similar coloration.
Amongst them were anatomies and colorations that must have made them outcasts in the Kingdom.
Certain physical features and colorations were unique to certain classes and made it difficult to pass as another in any event.