Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to pigment; especially, secreting or containing pigment, as a cell or a tissue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments.
- adjective (Med.) a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
pigment .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pigmental.
Examples
-
When at last it shuts down its little still and creeps forth through the filmy veil, it is immature no longer, but a brilliant frog-hopper, sitting on the most conspicuous leaves, trusting by pigmental warning to advertise its inedibility, and watchful for a mate, so that the future may hold no dearth of Bubble Bugs.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
-
They can scream at Democrats for not destroying Harry Reid for his innocuous observations about Obama's pigmental advantage spoken in private company.
-
To explore if these elements might be functional in the ocular tissues, we first examined the association of the expressions of PP2A-Aα with that of the four transcription factors, CREB, ETS-1, SP-1 and AP-2α in the retinal pigmental epithelial cells (ARPE-19) and the embryonic lens epithelial cells (FHL124 cells).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles He-Ge Chen et al. 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.