Sentence examples for colouration from inspiring English sources

"We know that pairing a bright colour with a chemical defence (warning colouration) is a good idea because it teaches predators not to attack", said Dr Rowland.

The colour is caused by geometric arrangements of a compound called guanine in their scales.Structural colouration does not always result in iridescence, but Dr Font realised it might be a property of the Iberian emerald lizard when he noticed that photographs a colleague took of one particular lizard seemed to show different hues depending on the angle it was being seen from.

The fact that these issues don't have a clear ideological colouration yet is important because they are among the most crucial issues of the 21st century.

These fine human hairs do not seem to be performing any of the functions of their counterparts in more hirsute species (insulation and, through colouration, either signalling or camouflage).

In this second type of mimicry, poisonous species come to resemble each other, so that their predators have fewer patterns of warning colouration to learn.

Experts examined them under the light and scrutinised their colouration.

Effects of Radiation. Radiation of radium produces all the ordinary effects of rays (see RADIOACTIVITY); ionisation of the gases, continuous production of heat, excitation of the phosphorescence of certain substances (zinc sulphide, etc.), colouration of glass, chemical actions (decomposition of water for instance), photographic actions, biologic actions.

Since then, the balance has, if not entirely reversed, then at least shifted significantly, to the point where Waits comes armed with a small ensemble of players able to accommodate the variety of instrumental colouration in his songs, while the lyrics have to some extent retreated into a netherworld of nursery rhymes and familiar folksong phraseology.

You see it in the leaf's colour too – or rather in its de-colouration.

Most impressive, however, is Noseda's navigation of the bombastic colourations of "Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia".

The venomous fish, recognisable by their spiky fin rays and stripy colourations are destroying marine life.