spectral colour vs coloring

spectral colour and coloring both are nouns.

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

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

spectral colour: a color that has hue
coloring: a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

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

spectral colour (noun)	coloring (noun)
a color that has hue	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