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Pigmentation   /pˌɪgməntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Pigmentation

noun
1.
The deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings.
2.
Coloration of living tissues by pigment.





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"Pigmentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... relation between fecundity and the natural yellow pigmentation of certain breeds of fowls. J. Biol. Chem., 1919, ...
— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy
... a waxy consistence by this pigmentation, so that it may be detached in granules. It is to this particular consistency of the epispore that the cracks so frequent in the coloured sporidia of Ascobolus are due, through contraction of the epispore. As they approach ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
... lozenges, consequent on the annual arrival of the Dutch fishing crews would, I am sure, have furnished excellent reading. Spencer's report would have dealt, I fancy, with the rotation of crops, the cause of the different currents, the varieties of pigmentation (with percentages) among the islanders, and the evolution of fishing gear from its rudimentary forms—in sum with the definite combination of heterogeneous changes both simultaneous and successive, ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes


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