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Colouration

noun

The timbre of a musical sound. Synonyms: color, coloration, colour.

Appearance with regard to color. Synonym: coloration.

Choice and use of colors (as by an artist). Synonym: coloration.

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... brood and strain into the abdominal cavity. These adhered and built up circulatory systems, as an autopsy later showed. This cockerel, whose male sex glands had been exchanged for female ones, developed the female body, and colouration so completely that expert breeders of the strain pronounced it a female. He found that simply removing the female sex glands invariably led to the development of spurs and male plumage. But simple removal of the male sex glands ...

— Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard

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