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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A visual defect characterized by the inability to discern blue and yellow.

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  • noun A form of color blindness. The person's retina does not respond to the blue color, due to lack of "blue" cone opsins.

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  • noun rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek tritos, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots + Greek anōpiā, blindness (an-, not; see a– + -ōpiā, -opia), so called because blue is considered the third of the primary colors.]

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