Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or having three colors, as in photography or printing.
- adjective Having perception of the three primary colors, as in normal human vision.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by three colors; in a specific sense, having the three fundamental color-sensations of red, green, and purple, as the normal eye, in distinction from a color-blind eye, which can perceive only two of the fundamental colors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; -- said of certain birds and insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Involving three
colours - adjective Having
perception in threeprimary colours
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or involving three colors
Etymologies
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Examples
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In addition, while we base our 'trichromatic' color combinations on red, blue, and green, bees base their colors on UV, blue, and green a much richer type of light.
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Long ago, before the dinosaurs, our early fish-like ancestors had trichromatic vision (three cone receptors).
Drunk On Color Heather McDougal 2009
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Even then, it's mostly old-world primates who are trichromatic; for new-world monkeys, only some females (depending on individual inheritance rather than species) are trichromatic.
Drunk On Color Heather McDougal 2009
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Even then, it's mostly old-world primates who are trichromatic; for new-world monkeys, only some females (depending on individual inheritance rather than species) are trichromatic.
Archive 2009-05-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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Long ago, before the dinosaurs, our early fish-like ancestors had trichromatic vision (three cone receptors).
Archive 2009-05-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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This explains why primates are the only mammals who have trichromatic vision - it is a trait mostly found in birds and reptiles (dinosaur descendents).
Drunk On Color Heather McDougal 2009
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This explains why primates are the only mammals who have trichromatic vision - it is a trait mostly found in birds and reptiles (dinosaur descendents).
Archive 2009-05-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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People had trichromatic vision, acute aural capacities, a fair sense of smell, the ability to feel textures and taste bitterness.
Dawkins and ID 2008
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Not that I bought that conclusion (trichromatic vision is another extremely interesting poke full of NDS Anazi Tales), but it was another fine stone for the soup.
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Such as the finding that primates apparently traded olfactory receptor genes for trichromatic vision.
qms commented on the word trichromatic
A calico cat is a she;
The shades of her coat are the key.
It's quite automatic:
If a cat's trichromatic
A female is all it can be.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_coat_genetics
February 12, 2016