■ noun Zoology protective coloration used by some animals in which parts normally in shadow are light and those exposed to the sky are dark.
Derivatives
countershaded adjective
■ noun Zoology protective coloration used by some animals in which parts normally in shadow are light and those exposed to the sky are dark.
Derivatives
countershaded adjective
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004