aposematism

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌæpə(ʊ)sɪˈmætɪz(ə)m/
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• General-American: /ˌæpoʊsɪˈmætɪz(ə)m/
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• General-American: /-pə-/
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• General-American: [-ɾɪ-]
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apo- (prefix meaning ‘away from’) (from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πό (ăpó, “from, away from”)) + semat(ic) (“acting as a sign of danger”) (from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign, token”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhyeh2- (“to notice”) + -μᾰ (-mă, suffix forming neuter nouns denoting the object or result of an action, or a particular instance of an action)) + -ism. The word aposematic was coined by British evolutionary biologist Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943) in The Colours of Animals (1890).

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَظْهَر تَحْذِيرِيّ (maẓhar taḥḏīriyy) — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Catalan: aposematisme — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Chinese Mandarin: 警戒作用 (jǐngjièzuòyòng) — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Czech: aposematismus — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Danish: aposematisme — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Dutch: aposematische kleuring — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Esperanto: aposematismo — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Estonian: aposemaatiline värvus — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Estonian: hoiatusvärvus — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Finnish: aposematismi — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• French: aposématisme — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Galician: aposematismo — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Georgian: გამაფრთხილებელი შეფერილობა (gamaprtxilebeli šeperiloba) — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• German: Aposematismus — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Greek: αποσηματισμός (aposimatismós) — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Hebrew: צבעי אזהרה — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Indonesian: aposematisme — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Italian: aposematismo — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Japanese: 警告色 — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Korean: 경계색 (gyeonggyesaek) — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Kyrgyz: апосематикалык түс (aposematikalık tüs) — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Latin: aposematismus — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Macedonian: апосемијата (aposemijata) — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Malay: aposematisme — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Norwegian: varselfarger — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Persian: رنگ هشدار — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Polish: aposematyczne — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Polish: ubarwienie ostrzegawcze — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Portuguese: aposematismo — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Portuguese: apossematismo — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Serbo-Croatian: aposematizam — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Slovene: aposematizem — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Spanish: aposematismo — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Swedish: aposematism — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Turkish: aposematizm — adaptation that warns off potential predators
• Vietnamese: tín hiệu xua đuổi — adaptation that warns off potential predators