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What does coloration mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word coloration? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The act or art of coloring.
  2. The quality of being colored.
  3. (music) A notational devise for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation); or
  4. (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid "black notes".
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Aposematic coloration or warning coloration is found in a wide array of animals.
Like many of our endemic species of ladybirds, these beetles have handsome red-and-black coloration.
The identically shaped sculptures each sport distinctive coloration, as well as striped or polka-dotted underpants.
Her work with the large African monkeys known as mandrills shows that red coloration gives males an advantage when it comes to mating.
Pyrazines are extremely volatile compounds and occur alongside warning coloration in insects from widely differing taxonomic groups.
Spot coloration can be red, yellow or orange and can often times be a combination of the three.

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