0 the colours, or the patterns made by these colours, that are present on an animal or plant:
Predators learn not to attack these frogs because of their bright colouration.
Growing the plant in full sun ensures attractive leaf colouration.
I have learnt the difference between piebald (black and white) and skewbald (brown and white) colourations.
The chart gives you a guide to the colouration of the particular beer you are ordering.
The orchestra's performance is full of fresh detail and colouration.
Its colouration - light brown with dark brown/black irregular flecks and blotches - makes the fish resemble a piece of wood.
As he describes his family, they take on the eccentric colouration of a family from a Poliakoff play.
His music was half-oriental, half-western in style and colouration.
The matrix is indurated and characterized by a patchy, possibly thermal colouration.
In later canvases, where theories of colouration and geometric composition came to dominate, shapes and colours may become the significant minimal unit.
Male germ cell apoptosis is indicated by brown colouration or green colour.