polychromatism
(pɒlɪˈkrəʊmətɪz(ə)m)
[f. as polychromatic a.: see -ism.]
The property of having or responding to many colours.
| 1950 Sci. News XV. 26 There may be, as it were, polychromatism of the retinal sense organs but trichromatism of the brain, and therefore of the organ of vision as a whole. 1965 B. E. Freeman tr. Vandel's Biospeleol. xxv. 408 Populations of Asellus aquaticus cavernicolus..show extreme polychromatism. |