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Take one cone away — go from being what scientists call a trichromat to a dichromat — and the number of possible combinations drops a factor of 100, to 10,000.—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2012
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borrowed from German Dichromat, back-formation from dichromatischdichromatic
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