PROTECTIVE COLORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protective coloration mean? 

• PROTECTIVE COLORATION (noun)
  The noun PROTECTIVE COLORATION has 1 sense:

1. coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators

  Familiarity information: PROTECTIVE COLORATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTECTIVE COLORATION (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)