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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



... but seldom collected, probably overlooked on account of protective coloration; the color is about that of the habitat, the weathered surface of dead herbaceous stems and roots. On dead corn stalks not infrequent. Differs from other species of the genus in having smoother capillitium, for which reason Rostafinski calls the present species Perichaena vermicularis. ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
... text of the Constitution, the Court was enabled to reject natural law and still to partake of its fruits, and the same is true of the laissez faire principles incorporated in judicial decisions from about 1890 to 1937. Such protective coloration is transparent in such cases as Lochner v. New York[281] and ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin


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


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