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
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• 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