warning coloration

1. 1.

   conspicuous coloration or markings of an animal serving to warn off predators

   “a skunk's aposematic coloration”

   Synonymsaposematic coloration

   Broaderprotective coloration

Questions about warning coloration

What does warning coloration mean?

warning coloration means "conspicuous coloration or markings of an animal serving to warn off predators".

What is another word for warning coloration?

Close synonyms include aposematic coloration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is warning coloration a common word?

warning 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.