| NOUN | substance | melanin | insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers |
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| Sounds | meh'lahnahn; meh'lahnihn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Adrenalin ... zeppelin / Zeppelin: 223 rhymes with ihn... | ||
| Meaning | insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers. | |
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| Broader | animal pigment | Pigment occurring in animals |
| Substance of | feather, plume, plumage | The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds |
| skin, tegument, cutis | A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | |
| Spanish | melanina | |
| Catalan | melanina | |
| Verbs | melanize | make or become black |
| melanize | convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | |
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