coat pattern
Animal marking style
A coat pattern is the arrangement of colors, markings, or textures in an animal's fur or hair.
The term appears most often in discussions of cats, dogs, and horses: tabby, calico, brindle, pinto.
Coat patterns result from genetics and can identify breeds or individuals: The shelter described her as a tortoiseshell coat pattern.
- stripesParallel linear markings
- tiger stripesParallel dark bands on pelage
- spotsDetects or marks
- tabbyPatterned domestic cat
- calicoPatchy-coated cat type
brindle · dappled · mottled · tortoiseshell · piebald · markings · fur · pelt · leopard · snow leopard · camouflage · rosettes · Bengal cat · tuxedo · patches · merle · roan · paint horse
- Dog Drawingdog portrait, sitting pose, sleeping pose, old dog, small breed
- cat traitsclaws, long-haired, short-haired, meowing, tabby
- dog coatshedding, brindle, merle, sable, roan
- Sewing Patternsbodice, dart, seam allowance, notch, size chart
- animal identificationspecies, breed, sex, color, markings
- animal markingsspots, stripes, rings, patches, bands
coat patternsolid color
Single unbroken hue
unpatterned · monochrome · solid · unmarked · patternless
coat patternunmarked
Having no visible identification
plain · unadorned · featureless · blank
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