Meaning Albino
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A person with albinism. The term was first applied by the Portuguese to people in West Africa, who may have had partial or complete albinism.
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An animal who lacks normal coloring; lack of melanin. Albino animals usually have a pure white coat and pink or red eyes.
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1777, from Spanish or Portuguese albino, from Latin albus "white" (see alb). Used by Portuguese of white-spotted African negroes. Extended 1859 to animals having the same peculiarity. A fema [..]
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an organism with little or no pigmentation.
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n. A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
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A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is African and Caucasian. Racial classifications were often based on physical appearanc [..]
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An uninked impression made by a printing plate. Such errors are scarce on stamps. They are found more frequently on postal stationery.
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  1. An organism lacking pigmentation, due to genetic factors. The condition is albinism
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An animal or plant that has less pigment than normal. An albino animal usually has skin that appears white or transparent; white or nearly colorless hair, feathers, or scales; and pink or blue eyes with a deep-red pupil. An albino plant has less of the chemicals that give plants their normal colors.
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A relatively rare, genetically recessive condition resulting in white hair and pink eyes.
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Albino A relatively rare, genetically recessive condition resulting in white hair and pink eyes.
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A lack of pigment in the skin. (Pinkness comes from the blood color)
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A ferret which has no pigmentation. Ferret must be all white with red(pink) eyes.
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Having pale or colorless skin, eyes, and hair because the body does not produce enough pigment.
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<dermatology> A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives colour 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 colour, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lowe [..]
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A pigmentless white phenotype, determined by a mutation in a gene coding for a pigment-synthesizing enzyme.
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congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism
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Italian, Portuguese and Spanish form of Albinus.
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