dichromatism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From di- + chromatism.
Noun
[edit]dichromatism (countable and uncountable, plural dichromatisms)
- The condition of being dichromatic
- (pathology) A form of colourblindness in which only two of the three primary colours can be distinguished
- (biology) The condition when male and female birds have different plumage colors.
- 2010, Geoffrey E. Hill, Geoffrey Edward Hill, National Geographic Bird Coloration[1]:
- There long had been a bias among researchers to think of the evolution of sexual dichromatism as driven by changes in male coloration.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- monochromatism
- dichromatism
- trichromatism