Tetrachromacy/Definition

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Tetrachromacy [r]: Color vision characteristic of organism with four types of color receptors. Birds and insects are commonly tetrachromats and some human woman have tetrachromatic vision, seeing more colors, due to the phenomenon of x-inactivation.