Usually means: Ability to change body color.
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  8. metachrosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Metachrosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  11. metachrosis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (metachrosis)

▸ noun:  (zoology) The ability to change colour by the expansion and contraction of chromatophores

Similar:
metachromism, metachromatism, metachromasia, metachromasy, chromism, chromophilia, homochromy, erythrochroism, chromopexy, homochromia, more...

Opposite:
ametachrosis, isochromia

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Similar:
metachromism, metachromatism, metachromasia, metachromasy, chromism, chromophilia, homochromy, erythrochroism, chromopexy, homochromia, more...

Opposite:
ametachrosis, isochromia



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