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obliterative coloration

noun

Etymology

Coined by American artist Gerald Handerson Thayer

Definitions

  1. The coloration of an animal that makes it blend into the background

    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.
    • The problem with the topic of obliterative coloration is that it is very well accepted despite there being so few empirical tests of the phenomenon.
    • Obliterative coloration aims to make animals invisible, while mimicry is deceptive visibility aiming to make the animal appear as something else.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for obliterative coloration. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA