Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. biology An adaptation that warns off potential predators; especially such a warning colouration
Etymologies
- apo- + semat(ic) + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Prominent examples of animals displaying aposematism are bumblebees and coral snakes.”
“Aposematism" was one; and the inveterate punster in me thought, "Oh, yeah, left-wing aposematism.”
“Because a few days ago, in a whimsical mood, I posted an article, "Left-wing aposematism," announcing that I had been accredited as a blogger to the upcoming Conservative convention, and wondering what the hell I ought to wear.”
“And come to think of it, that may be all the aposematism I need. posted by Dr.”
“Deterrence is a military form of what biologists call aposematism.”
“But as more evidence accumulates, scientists are finding they support the hypothesis that specialization to small-sized prey, including ants but especially mites, was a first evolutionary step, followed by evolution of alkaloid-sequestering, aposematism and diurnality.”
“Horizontal black and white bands on, for example skunks and stink badgers are probably a text-book example of warning colouration (or aposematism).”
“�That is, the handicap principle, aposematism, cryptis and mimicry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aposematism’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 856 more...
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Favorite Words II
antipode, subsumed, maladroit, quidnunc, tonsorial, savvy, vignette, retrograde, flummoxed, ne plus ultra, icosahedron, plethora and 138 more...
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Biology
malacological, cladistic, phenetic, phylogenetic, taxonomy, bathypelagic, superfamily, superorder, infraorder, binomen, binominal, quorum sensing and 199 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Miscellanea
Pretty words. Words I really, really like.
causerie, persiflage, prickmedainty, chanteuse, menstruum, deliquesce, coruscant, umber, radiatrix, zoopsia, diamanté, desex and 50 more...
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animalistic
ant mill, stigmergy, whale fall, animalistic, eusocial, presocial, dog days, neoteny, ruminate, zoolatry, trophallaxis, feeding frenzy and 84 more...
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Thanks, science!
Because we need great words to describe the great things that kill us (or help us, whichever).
buckyball, haemodynamics, encephalography, prion, ecliptic, aurora borealis, miasma, apoptosis, polyp, nocebo, hemodynamics, eschatology and 7 more...
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