Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Uniform in color.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as concolor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of the same color throughout.

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  • adjective Colored the same throughout.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin concolor, of the same color (from con-, con- + color, color; see kel- in Indo-European roots) + –ous.]

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Examples

  • This is a neat, finely-decussated, concolorous species, with the upper whorls nodulous from erosion, as in Vivipara praerosa, Gerst.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • Discolored - orous: a different color from the surrounding, more or less contrasting; not concolorous.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to

    Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894

  • There is a broad pale yellow linear area below the former of these two dark bands, the portion of the side below it being concolorous with the thighs and fore-limbs.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Blyth, however, mentions a specimen from Tenasserim which is unusually rufous, with the tail concolorous with the upper parts.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Pale grey above, finely punctulated with black and grey; tail concolorous, with a black tip; under parts pale orange yellow; hands and feet yellow.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- The back and top of the head are greyish-yellowish, the hairs being leaden grey at the base, passing into yellow, the sub-terminal part being brown, with a minute dark point; the upper surface of the parachute is almost wholly black, with a greyish-white border; under surface yellow; the belly greyish-ashy; feet black; limbs and tail concolorous with the body, the latter very bushy.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Dark slaty above; head and lower parts pale yellowish; hands concolorous with body, or only a little darker; tail slightly tufted; hair on the crown of the head short and radiated; on the cheeks long, directed backwards, and covering the ears.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Yellowish-brown, with a rufous tint on the back, paler below; tail brown above, whitish underneath; feet concolorous with the under-part; ears small, hairy and nearly hidden by the fur; incisors yellow in front.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • The fur is coarser and more broadly ringed than in _S. lokriah_, and the ventral surface is never tinged with orange, as in that species; the tail is concolorous with the back; the hair more coarsely annulated; there is no white tuft behind the ears, as in the last species.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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