Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person or animal lacking normal pigmentation, with the result being that the skin and hair are abnormally white or milky and the eyes have a pink or blue iris and a deep-red pupil.
- noun A plant that lacks chlorophyll.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person of pale, milky complexion, with light hair and pink eyes.
- noun Hence An animal characterized by the same peculiarity in physical constitution.
- noun A plant the leaves of which are marked by the absence of chlorophyl, or whose flowers are exceptionally white. Seealbinism.
- noun In Mexico, a person who has one eighth negro and seven eighths Spanish blood; the child of a Morisco woman (who is the daughter of a mulatto mother and a Spanish father) and of a Spaniard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
congenitally lackingmelanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born withalbinism - noun countable person or animal
congenitally lackingmelanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born withalbinism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from PSEbowhunter wrote 7 weeks 4 days ago they are very rare even more rare than in albino deer
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MLH ... true albino fish do have pink eyes, but sometimes what makes fish look albino is a melanin deficiency.
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Yes | No | Report from maxwell wrote 40 weeks 3 days ago that albino is awesome.
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Yes | No | Report from maxwell wrote 40 weeks 3 days ago that albino is awesome.
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MLH ... true albino fish do have pink eyes, but sometimes what makes fish look albino is a melanin deficiency.
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Yes | No | Report from PSEbowhunter wrote 7 weeks 4 days ago they are very rare even more rare than in albino deer
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The first poster is, however, even more seriously deluded and may, for all I know, believe also in albino assassin monks from a non-monastic society.
June 21st, 2009 m_francis 2009
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All may be lost, except for a certain albino named Zenith ...
Superhero Prose Fiction: Seaton Begg - The Metatemporal Detective 11 - The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera Blue Tyson 2008
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All may be lost, except for a certain albino named Zenith ...
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera - Michael Moorcock Blue Tyson 2008
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But would you say that an albino is inferior to us?
reesetee commented on the word albino
In stamp collecting, an un-inked impression made by a printing plate. Such errors are scarce on stamps and more often found on postal stationery.
August 25, 2008