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Definition of Cryptic coloration
1. Noun. Coloring that conceals or disguises an animal's shape.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptic Coloration
Literary usage of Cryptic coloration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and ...by James William Tutt by James William Tutt (1908)
"... cryptic coloration ; Habits an aid to cryptic colour ; Points of ... 57;
Sluggish habits: cryptic coloration; Rapidity of feeding after hibernation ..."
2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"Mr. Curtis, however, is again mixing up " protective resemblance (cryptic
coloration) " and "warning coloration." I did not say that the latter was lost on ..."
3. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"The cryptic coloration and secretive, solitary (or loosely colonial) nesting
behavior of Marbled Murrelets suggests that they have evolved under a regime of ..."
4. Concealing-coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of by Gerald Handerson Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer (1909)
"It is chiefly against discovery by daylight in such-like situations that the
intensely high-wrought "cryptic" coloration of their upper sides avails them; ..."
5. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"... of testing the efficiency of warning and cryptic coloration in protecting
animals from their enemies," in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of ..."
6. America and the Great War for Humanity and Freedom by Willis Fletcher Johnson (1917)
"cryptic coloration is employed both in attack and in defense, and is commonly
associated with other qualities, such as speed, agility and strength. ..."
7. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"... confirms the synonymy already published and the occurrence of C. blanda on
the Atlantic as well the Gulf slope of Georgia.—CW LENG. cryptic coloration. ..."
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