"protective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Underside: ground-colour on the whole darker than in the dry-season form, but with the same protective colouring.
- Mahmoud, of course, as a Moslem, did not drink alcohol, and Owen, who habitually took on protective colouring, fell into line without thinking.
- He had changed into a dark suit as a kind of protective colouring, so that he could sit quietly observing rather than being observed.
- But that is talent speaking of genius, and it overlooks the protective colouring by which genius can seek to mask its own sensitivities.
- He was in a Citro n and he had picked up two English hikers as protective colouring.
- I am very glad to have my error corrected about the protective colouring of shells.
- Desert animals, and protective colouring.
- Respect for medieval precedent was a tactical device, a protective colouring to make the constitution respectable to conservative Spain.
- Here birds, apparently, had few enemies and so no need of a protective colouring, and freed from that restraint they had let themselves go.
- Meldola himself was much interested in protective colouring and mimicry of moths.
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