protective coloration

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   coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators

   Broadercoloration

   Narroweraposematic colorationapatetic colorationcryptic coloration

   zoology

Questions about protective coloration

What does protective coloration mean?

protective coloration means "coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators".

Is protective coloration a common word?

protective coloration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.