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Gloger, n. Zool.|ˈgləʊgə(r)|
[The name of Constantine L. Gloger (1803–63), German zoologist.]
Gloger's rule (occas. Gloger's law) [tr. Glogersche Regel (B. Rensch Prinzip geogr. Rassenkreise und Problem der Artbildung (1929) 160)], the empirical principle that within a given species (orig. of bird) the races which inhabit warmer or more humid regions are more heavily pigmented than those of cooler or drier regions.
1933Amer. Naturalist LXVII. 114 The rule of the depigmentation in arid regions, and of the accumulation of pigment in humid regions, is well known under the name of Allen's rule (or Gloger's rule). 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 379/2 Gloger's law. 1983E. C. Minkoff Evolutionary Biol. xiii. 235/1 Gloger's rule relates body color to both humidity and temperature. |