Colouration is an English word with synonyms like coloration or color. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Colouration meaning
Alternative spelling of coloration.
Synonyms of Colouration
Using Colouration
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of coloration.
- Useful related words include: coloration, color, colour, option.
- In the example corpus, colouration often appears in combinations such as: colouration of, brown colouration, and colouration.
Context around Colouration
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Colouration
- In this selection, "colouration" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brown, warning, animal, matched, artist and varies stand out and add context to how "colouration" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a brown colouration with areas and a reddish colouration on the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "colouration" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with colouration
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He also warned against politicising the conflict or giving it a "religious colouration". (13 words)
A large area on the back has been washed with an iodine -based disinfectant leaving brown colouration. (17 words)
However, Idris pointed out that the TSA was fraught with implementation challenges, which have institutional, operational and technological colouration. (19 words)
However, due to the amount of skull variation in the two species, usually only the structure of the lower jaw can be used as a reliable indicator of species. citation Lion colouration varies from light buff to yellowish, reddish, or dark ochraceous brown. (43 words)
Accusing the hospital of negligence, the mother Sabera Kagwiria says she pointed out a reddish colouration on the baby’s left cheek and eye immediately they left the theatre but was told it was nothing to worry about. (38 words)
The coat is variously described as sandy, tawny or greyish with brown, chestnut or faded rosettes. citation Variant colouration Melanistic leopard or " black panther main Melanistic leopards, known, like the melanistic jaguars, as "black panthers". (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Warning colouration was one of a number of contributions Wallace made in the area of the evolution of animal colouration in general and the concept of protective colouration in particular.
Pennant sandstone is a micacous sandstone which has a brown colouration with areas of red staining where iron from pyrite in coal has weathered creating a rust colouration.
Sani said the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has done a wonderful job full of maturity and nationality colouration that would change the narrative of religious/ethnic politics in the country.
The monarch maintained that he remained a father figure to all, irrespective of religion, tribe, or ethnic colouration and that he was only in for the unity, progress and peace of Nigeria.
After, when back home she checked out wolf images, and they confirmed that the physical shape and colouration matched the animal that she had seen.
The lawyer also called on Governor Oborevwori, to discountenance the blackmail and deceit of party colouration of the crisis and keep to his transparent mantra.
Genetic research indicates melanism comes from a mutation in a gene that causes a loss of the normal function and colouration.
In contrast, species of daisy that do not close at night produced the same colouration on their lower petals as the upper petals exposed to pollinators.
Accusing the hospital of negligence, the mother Sabera Kagwiria says she pointed out a reddish colouration on the baby’s left cheek and eye immediately they left the theatre but was told it was nothing to worry about.
He also warned against politicising the conflict or giving it a "religious colouration".
He said that some stool could have yellowish colouration and could appear oily, stressing that in such situation, the individual could be having a health condition known as malabsorption.
However, Idris pointed out that the TSA was fraught with implementation challenges, which have institutional, operational and technological colouration.
A large area on the back has been washed with an iodine -based disinfectant leaving brown colouration.
Batfish change greatly as they grow, however the potential aquarist is most likely to see them in their juvenile form, so that is the description of the colouration here.
Colouration Artist's restoration illustrating one interpretation of Carney's study citation In 2011, graduate student Ryan Carney and colleagues performed the first colour study on an Archaeopteryx specimen.
Crete senesi are literally ‘ Senese clays ’, and the distinctive grey colouration of the soil gives the landscape an appearance often described as lunar.
However, due to the amount of skull variation in the two species, usually only the structure of the lower jaw can be used as a reliable indicator of species. citation Lion colouration varies from light buff to yellowish, reddish, or dark ochraceous brown.
Once a predator has sampled one of these, it is likely to remember the colouration next time it encounters a similar animal.
Strongly contrasting leg colouration is common only in the Bovidae, where for example Bos, Ovis, bontebok and gemsbok have white stockings.
The coat is variously described as sandy, tawny or greyish with brown, chestnut or faded rosettes. citation Variant colouration Melanistic leopard or " black panther main Melanistic leopards, known, like the melanistic jaguars, as "black panthers".
Common combinations with colouration
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- colouration of 5×
- brown colouration 3×
- and colouration 3×
- the colouration 3×
- colouration in 2×
- colouration and 2×
- colouration on 2×