NOUN
- a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision)
How To Use dichromatism In A Sentence
- Collection of the goldfinches took place when plumage dichromatism between males and females is subtle.
- Protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia are all types of dichromatism.
- In no case did we find a significant interaction between sexual dichromatism and year.
- Sex of each chick at six weeks of age was recorded, when sexual plumage dichromatism became unambiguous.
- We note that, in the model, sex and year effects showed the same patterns of difference as in previous analyses (results not shown): sexual dichromatism in UV reflectance and blue chroma seem independent of age in the barn swallow.
- One of the most conspicuous ornamental traits in avian sexual dichromatism is carotenoid-based plumage coloration.
- Extrapair paternity has been reported to be strongly positively associated with sexual dichromatism.
