What is "coloration"

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.