dichromatism
Americannoun
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the quality or state of being dichromatic.
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Also called dichromatopsia. Ophthalmology. a defect of vision in which the retina responds to only two of the three primary colors.
Etymology
Origin of dichromatism
First recorded in 1880–85; dichromat(ic) + -ism
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The pumas were for the most part bright red, but some were reddish gray, there being much the same dichromatism that I found among their Colorado kinsfolk.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
Hybridism and dichromatism are believed to account for these birds of which somewhat over a hundred specimens are known, chiefly from the lower Hudson and Connecticut Valleys.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
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