polychromatismn.

1860 J. S. Mill Let. 25 Jan. in Wks. (1972) XV. 659 They have covered the interior [of Notre-Dame] with their polychromatism.

1969 J. Thanner tr. U. Schlegel in J. Stubblebine Giotto: Arena Chapel Frescoes 184 The Betrayal and The Visitation correspond in their polychromatism to the pictures on the side walls and to The Last Judgment.

1996 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 19 Sept. e14 The polychromatism of the painted torso, with its detailed and striated application, adds a curious vibrancy.

1893 Mind 2 416 Anomalies of polychromatism occur, and there are intermediate stages between it and dichromatism.

1948 Times 14 Sept. 2/6 He concluded that there must be polychromatism throughout the entire visual mechanism for colour perception.

1950 Sci. News 15 26 There may be..polychromatism of the retinal sense organs but trichromatism of the brain, and therefore of the organ of vision as a whole.

1949 F. B. Hutt Genetics of Fowl xi. 386 The polychromatism normally found in eggs of the ring-necked pheasant..could probably be accounted for by brown and blue..in combinations.

1973 Science 23 Feb. 806/1 A large literature has accumulated on polychromatism (color polymorphism) in many different groups of animals.

2000 Evolution 54 2158/1 Color morph frequencies were used to obtain estimates of allele frequencies for color morphs using knowledge about the genetic basis of female polychromatism.