aposematism
An adaptation, especially a form of coloration, that warns off potential predatorsAn adaptation, especially a form of coloration, that warns off potential predators.
Meaning
1 sensesAn adaptation, especially a form of coloration, that warns off potential predators.
Aposematismus
Translations
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Origin
apo- (prefix meaning ‘away from’) (from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πό (ăpó, “from, away from”)) + semapo- (prefix meaning ‘away from’) (from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πό (ăpó, “from, away from”)) + semat(ic) (“acting as a sign of danger”) (from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign, token”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰyeh₂- (“to notice”) + -μᾰ (-mă, suffix forming neuter nouns denoting the object or result of an action, or a particular instance of an action)) + -ism. The word aposematic was coined by British evolutionary biologist Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943) in The Colours of Animals (1890).
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Forms
plural: aposematisms| Singular | aposematism |
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