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Protective coloration   /prətˈɛktɪv kˌələrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Protective coloration

noun
1.
Coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators.





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"Protective coloration" Quotes from Famous Books



... not what the biologist would call a pure form. He (or she) is usually a yellow journalist, adopting criticism as a kind of protective coloration. The highly personal critic, adventuring, or even frolicking among masterpieces, and recording his experiences, is the true type, and it is he that the ego-friskish imitate. Such a critic in the jovial person of ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby
... articles of food—which meant everything edible except spinach—and starve gracefully on a diet composed exclusively of boiled spinach, with the prospect of dying a dark green death in from three to six weeks and providing one's own protective coloration if entombed in a ...
— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb


Words linked to "Protective coloration" :   cryptic coloration, colouration, apatetic coloration, warning coloration, zoology, zoological science, aposematic coloration, coloration


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