| 单词 | colour change |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour change colour change n. [compare to change colour (also †colours) at Phrases 1] a change in colour; (Zoology) the alteration in the colour of an animal's coat, skin, plumage, etc., either for camouflage (esp. in response to change in the surroundings) or as a signal to others (e.g. as a warning, a cue for mating, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > cryptic or protective coloration > colour-change colour change1566 1566 T. Nuce tr. Octavia iv. i. sig. F.iij What meanes your colour chaunge [L. quae..vultus causa mutavit] from red to white? 1856 W. L. Lindsay Histol. Cholera Evacuations 5 These colour-changes are probably to be referred to the action of modified bile or blood. 1873 Lancet 24 May 754/2 The seasonal colour-change in certain species of hare. 1886 Philos. Trans. 1885 (Royal Soc.) 176 654 In its colour-changes with acids it has a very remote resemblance to the purple pentacrinin of Professor Moseley. 1915 A. P. Mathews Physiol. Chem. ix. 370 The color change is due probably to a rearrangement of the molecule to a colored form, probably a quinonoid, when in the salt form. 1936 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas (ed. 2) viii. 179 The remarkable property of colour change..is possessed by a far greater number of marine than terrestrial animals. 1991 Canad. House & Home Dec. 82/1 If it is purely for a colour change that you were considering replacing it, please note that it is quite paintable. 2004 Prima Nov. 53 If you're thinking of making a drastic colour change, make a trip to the Cobella salon.., where you can try on wefts of real hair in ninety shades in order to make sure you pick the right one. < as lemmas |
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