homochromia

== English == === Etymology === From homo- +‎ -chromia. === Noun === homochromia (uncountable) (zoology, rare) The use, by an organism, of the same colour as its background or other form of camouflage as a means of protection. 1895, Jean Massart & Émile Vandervelde, Parasitism, Organic and Social (trans. William Macdonald and J. Arthur Thomson), Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Limited (1895), pages 16-17: Lastly, the same holds good of mimetic parasitism; for at the climax of that process we have the elaborate imitation of the living organism, then of its cadaver or its excreta, till, finally, we arrive at homochromia, that is, the adoption by certain animals of the prevailing colour of their environment. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:homochromia. (medicine, ophthalmology) The anatomical state in which the same pigmentation or coloring occurs in the eyes, skin or hair. ==== Synonyms ==== homochromy ==== Antonyms ==== heterochromia ==== Derived terms ==== homochromatic homochromous