coloration
Americannoun
noun
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arrangement of colour and tones; colouring
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the colouring or markings of insects, birds, etc See also apatetic aposematic cryptic
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unwanted extraneous variations in the frequency response of a loudspeaker or listening environment
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This preserved coloration allowed researchers to closely examine the structure and growth of the feathers in ways that are usually impossible with fossils.
From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026
Rather, “bald” comes from the old English word “piebald,” which is still used today for horses, and means coloration of alternating dark and light.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026
And yet atollas gain their reddish coloration from pigments called porphyrins, which don’t absorb blue light all that well and which, if exposed to bright light, emit toxins.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Not done waxing poetic about the eyes on the veritable Redford of retrievers, Leonberg also pointed out another benefit of his dog’s particular coloration.
From Salon • Oct. 3, 2025
These atoms, gradually spiraling in toward Jupiter, should coat the inner moon Amalthea and may be responsible for its reddish coloration.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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