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PROTECTIVE COLORATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("protective coloration" is a kind of...):
coloration; colouration (appearance with regard to color)
Domain category:
zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protective coloration"):
aposematic coloration; warning coloration (conspicuous coloration or markings of an animal serving to warn off predators)
apatetic coloration (coloring serving as natural camouflage)
cryptic coloration (coloring that conceals or disguises an animal's shape)
