Definitions for melanins

melanins mel·a·nin

Spelling: [mel-uh-nin]
IPA: /ˈmɛl ə nɪn/

Melanins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in melanins (aeilmnns).

Definitions for melanins

noun

  1. any of a class of insoluble pigments, found in all forms of animal life, that account for the dark color of skin, hair, fur, scales, feathers, etc.

Origin of melanins

First recorded in 1835-45; melan- + -in2

Examples for melanins

The pigment of the secretion is melanin, and its function is to produce a dense opacity in the water, which conceals the animal.

These are generally called melanin granules, but are much better referred to as hmozoin, as they are not related to melanin.

As the parasite feeds and grows there is deposited within its body a blackish or brownish pigment known as melanin.

Hence the hair grown from a follicle under such conditions lacks pigment (melanin) and is white.

The melanotic cancer contains abundant pigment, melanin, within its cells.

But the world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin.

The colour varies from brown to black, according to the amount of melanin pigment present.

Brown or black eye-color is due to a melanin pigment absent from the blue or gray eye.

Word Value for melanins
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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