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nounappearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds. Origin of colorationFirst recorded in 1605–15; color + -ation OTHER WORDS FROM colorationcol·o·ra·tion·al, adjectivecol·o·ra·tion·al·ly, adverbde·col·or·a·tion, nouno·ver·col·or·a·tion, noun pre·col·or·a·tion, nounre·col·or·a·tion, nountrans·col·or·a·tion, noun Words nearby colorationColorado Springs, Colorado tick fever, Colorado tick fever virus, Colorado topaz, colorant, coloration, coloratura, colorbearer, color-blind, color blindness, colorbreed Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for colorationHow, then, did the first day of the Christmas-shopping season come to have the coloration of calamity? Black Friday Is Like Occupy Wall Street|Lee Siegel|November 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST And Prince Harry may be a Windsor, but in coloration and temperament he is indubitably a flaming-red Spencer. Notes From a Royal Wedding|Tina Brown|May 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST Variation in coloration is of such magnitude that it has been used as the basis for recognition of subspecies. A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America)|John Wellman Yet these birds are beautifully adapted in structure, coloration, and habits to their station. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)|P. L. Sclater
There is great variation both in the coloration and in the integuments. The Solomon Islands and Their Natives|H. B. (Henry Brougham) Guppy The most remarkable feature of the coloration of weasels is the winter whitening. American Weasels|E. Raymond Hall The one difference that I can detect is in the coloration of the nape. Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico|E. Raymond Hall
British Dictionary definitions for coloration
nounarrangement of colour and tones; colouring the colouring or markings of insects, birds, etcSee also apatetic, aposematic, cryptic unwanted extraneous variations in the frequency response of a loudspeaker or listening environment Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to colorationhue, tint, tone, complexion, tinge, glow, blend, shade, intensity, stain, paint, texture, coloring, skin, tincture, cast, pigment, wash, dye, nib |