eye colour vs coloring

eye colour and coloring both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
eye colour	Yes	No	No	No
coloring	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, coloring is a hypernym of eye colour; that is, coloring is a word with a broader meaning than eye colour:

eye colour: The pigmentation of the eye's iris.
coloring: a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

Other hypernyms of eye colour include color, colour, colouring.

eye colour (noun)	coloring (noun)
The pigmentation of the eye's iris.	the act or process of changing the color of something
	a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
	a digestible substance used to give color to food