melanism

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Etymology

From French mélanisme; by surface analysis, melan(o)- +‎ -ism.

Noun

melanism (countable and uncountable, plural melanisms)

1. Congenital abundance or excess of melanin pigmentation in the skin, hair, feathers and/or eyes, more than is typical for the species.

Antonyms

• albinism, albinoism

Derived terms

• acromelanism
• amelanism
• eumelanism
• hypermelanism

Translations

congenital excess of melanin pigmentation

Catalan: melanisme m Chinese: Mandarin: 黑變病 / 黑变病 (zh) (hēibiànbìng) Danish: melanisme c Dutch: melanisme (nl) n Esperanto: melanismo French: mélanisme (fr) m German: Melanismus (de) m Hungarian: melanizmus (hu) Ido: melanismo (io) Italian: melanismo (it) m Korean: 흑색증(黑色症) (heuksaekjeung) 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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mélanisme.

Noun

melanism n (uncountable)

1. melanism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	melanism	melanismul
genitive-dative	melanism	melanismului
vocative	melanismule