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obliterative colouration

obliterative colouration is the alternative form of obliterative coloration.

Meaning of obliterative coloration

Noun

obliterative coloration (uncountable)

  1. The coloration of an animal that makes it blend into the background; camouflage.
    • We have here, as far as these patterns go, a complete inversion of the regular obliterative coloration.1909, Gerald Handerson Thayer, Concealing-coloration in the Animal Kingdom, page 147

Questions about obliterative colouration

What is obliterative colouration the alternative form of?
Obliterative colouration is the alternative form of obliterative coloration.

Words near obliterative colouration in the dictionary

  1. obliterations
  2. obliterative
  3. obliterative assimilation
  4. obliterative bronchiolitis
  5. obliterative coloration
  6. obliterative colouration
  7. obliterative procedure
  8. obliterative subsumption
  9. obliteratively
  10. obliterator
  11. obliterators

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