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Albino  n.  (pl. albinos)  A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Note: The term was originally applied by the Portuguese to negroes met with on the coast of Africa, who were mottled with white spots.






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"Albino" Quotes from Famous Books



... younger student than you were, almost an albino, six feet high, and broad, with a pink and white face and red eyes, who won ...
— The Invisible Man • H. G. Wells

... the launches work the reverse of anywhere else in the world; where we saw a stream of logs, of six to twelve and fifteen feet in diameter, which filled the river bed for miles to the obliteration of any sign of water; and where we were told of a white or albino redwood tree. We did not see this last, so cannot ...
— The Human Drift • Jack London

... singularly beautiful, singularly intellectual being within; a being from another quarter of the globe, a being adapted to an entirely different mode of existence to ours; a being who could see in the dark, a being who only lived upon raw meat! A wonderful Albino who could speak ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various

... skins, white eyebrows and lashes, their pinkish eyes—for all the world like those of an albino—blinked oddly as they squinted ahead, as though to catch some sign of land. Every one wore a kind of cassock of the brown coarse material; a few were girdled with belts of skin, having well-wrought metal buckles. Their paddles were not of wood. Not ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England



Words linked to "Albino" :   Albino Luciano, unusual person, anomaly



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