melanism

melanism

English

Etymology

melan(in) +‎ -ism

Noun

melanism (countable and uncountable, plural melanisms)

1. Congenital excess of melanin pigmentation in the skin, hair, feathers and/or eyes.

Antonyms

• albinism, albinoism

Derived terms

• amelanism
• eumelanism
• hypermelanism

 

Translations

congenital excess of melanin pigmentation

Danish: melanisme c Dutch: melanisme (nl) n Esperanto: melanismo French: mélanisme (fr) m German: Melanismus (de) m Hungarian: melanizmus Ido: melanismo (io) Italian: melanismo m

Norwegian: Bokmål: melanisme m Nynorsk: melanisme m Polish: melanizm m Portuguese: melanismo m Russian: мелани́зм (ru) m (melanízm) Spanish: melanismo m Swedish: melanism c

See also

• leucism, leukism