schemochrome

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “shape”) +‎ -chrome, from χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”).

Noun

schemochrome (plural schemochromes)

  1. (biology) Colouration produced by microscopic structures that reflect/refract light rather than pigments.
    • 1973, Florida Ornithological Society, The Florida field naturalist‎, page n183:
      First, a blue pigment is known from birds (rhodoxanthin, a xanthophyll producing the blue of fruit pigeons, Ptilinopus; see Buckley 1982 : 61), although the blue of parrots is almost certainly not based on a pigment (biochrome), but rather is a schemochrome (structural color).
    • 1975, Howe, William H, Bauer, David L, The Butterflies of North America‎, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, page 19:
      In some groups a schemochrome overlies a conspicuous biochrome, with spectacular effect.
    • 2010, Morgan, E. David (Eric David), Biosynthesis in insects‎, page 272:
      The fine scales on the wings of some butterflies and the surface of scarab beetles produce schemochrome colours (Chapman, 1998a).

References

  1. ^ Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology‎, 2005, page 805
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