Definition of Apatetic

1. having coloration serving as natural camouflage [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apatetic

apartment building
apartment buildings
apartment complex
apartment complexes
apartment house
apartmental
apartmentlike
apartmentmate
apartmentmates
apartments
apartness
apartnesses
apastia
apastrons
apatetic (current term)
apatetic coloration
apatheia
apatheism
apatheist
apatheists
apathete
apathetes
apathetic
apathetically
apatheticness
apathies
apathism
apathist
apathistical

Literary usage of Apatetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Evolutionary Biology by Arthur Dendy (1912)
"He distinguishes, in the first place, between apatetic (deceitful) colours, sematic (warning and signalling) colours, ..."

2. The Colours of Animals: Their Meaning and Use, Especially Considered in the by Edward Bagnall Poulton (1890)
"... are grouped with Mimicry under the first head of apatetic Colours, because an animal is thus made to resemble some other species or some other object. ..."

3. Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular by Joseph Lane Hancock (1911)
"Poulton has divided the colors of animals as follows:i I. apatetic Colors Colors resembling some part of the environment or the appearance of another ..."

4. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"I. apatetic COLORS.—Colors resembling some part of the environment or the appearance of another species. A. CRYPTIC COLORS. ..."

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