melanin
Any of a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, fur, and feathers.
A kind of
- animal pigment
Related words
- melaninization
- amelanosis
- melanated
- melaninlike
- melanistic
- melanize
- melatonin
- prepromelanin
- promelanin
- melanin-challenged
- allomelanin
- melaninogenesis
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This definition is adapted from “melanin” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.