ambicoloration

noun

am·​bi·​col·​or·​a·​tion

plural -s

: an abnormal development of color or pigmentation on the eyeless and ordinarily whitish side of any flatfish of the families Pleuronectidae and Soleidae

Word History

Etymology

ambi- + coloration

First Known Use

1894, in the meaning defined above

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