English to Maltese Meaning of dichromatism - dichromatism

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Definitions of dichromatism in English

Noun(1) 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

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(1) In no case did we find a significant interaction between sexual dichromatism and year.(2) Sex of each chick at six weeks of age was recorded, when sexual plumage dichromatism became unambiguous.(3) Collection of the goldfinches took place when plumage dichromatism between males and females is subtle.(4) Extrapair paternity has been reported to be strongly positively associated with sexual dichromatism .(5) One of the most conspicuous ornamental traits in avian sexual dichromatism is carotenoid-based plumage coloration.(6) Other arrhythmic animals must also have dichromatic color vision during the day and detect wavelengths somewhere between 430 and 500 nm at night, depending on their rhodopsins and specific types of blue pigments.(7) The RSD species are also so obviously sexually dichromatic that it seems unlikely the tail length dimorphism could have evolved to reduce competition between mated pairs for access to ecological resources such as food.(8) Chestnut Teal are strongly sexually dichromatic ; the male has a green head, chestnut breast, and dark upperparts, and the female closely resembles a Grey Teal.(9) Gambel's quail is a highly ornate and dichromatic species, whereas scaled quail (C. squamata) is unornamented and monochromatic.(10) Most mammals are dichromatic , meaning they have the use of two types of light-receiving cells, called cones, in their eyes that allow them to distinguish two of the four primary color phases, giving them limited color resolution.

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