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Melanism   Listen
noun
Melanism  n.  
1.
An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; the opposite of albinism.
2.
(Med.) A disease; black jaundice. See Melaena.





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"Melanism" Quotes from Famous Books



... from Miniatitlan are darker than those from Altamira, but this seems not to be significant taxonomically, because examination of series from other localities provides no evidence of geographic variation in color except, possibly, in the frequency of melanism. A series of 13 specimens (Univ. Kansas) from 7 and 8 km. WNW Potrero, Veracruz, for example, is quite as dark as topotypes of S. a. hypopyrrhus from Miniatitlan, although the localities of capture are approximately in the center of the geographic ...
— The Subspecies of the Mexican Red-bellied Squirrel, Sciurus aureogaster • Keith R. Kelson


Words linked to "Melanism" :   skin disorder, melanosis, skin disease


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