anticryptic, a. Zool.
(æntɪˈkrɪptɪk)
[f. anti-1 3 c + cryptic a. 3.]
Applied to markings or coloration serving for concealment to the disadvantage of some other animal: distinguished from procryptic a.
| 1890 E. B. Poulton Colours Anim. xvii. 336 Protective and Aggressive Resemblances are classed as Cryptic Colours (Procryptic and Anticryptic). Ibid. 337 Pseudepisematic colours..are special instances of Anticryptic colours. 1960 I. F. & W. D. Henderson Dict. Sci. Terms (ed. 7) 33/2. |