Word of the week #6

Word: Salient

Word Usage:

After all, what we as human observers consider to be salient acoustic features of the repertoire may turn out to be irrelevant from the rhesus monkey’s perspective.

Definitions:

-noun

1. prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
2. projecting or pointing outward: a salient angle.
3. leaping or jumping: a salient animal
4. Heraldry. (of a beast) represented as leaping: a lion salient.
5. a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
6. Physical Geography. a landform that extends out beyond its surroundings, as a spur projecting from the side of a mountain

Applicable definition:

1. prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.

My Sentence:

The salient trait allows for frogs to recognize the mating call specific to its species.

Reference:

Hauser, M. (1996). The evolution of communication. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Word Count: 148