Definitions for melanic

melanic me·lan·ic

Spelling: [muh-lan-ik]
IPA: /məˈlæn ɪk/

Melanic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in melanic (aceilmn).

Definitions for melanic

adjective

  1. Pathology. melanotic.
  2. of or relating to melanism.

Origin of melanic

First recorded in 1815-25; melan- + -ic

Examples for melanic

Examples of a blackish form have been noted from a wood in West Kent, and these are apparently referable to the melanic ab.

In these cases the advanced condition in the series of melanic colors appears only late in ontogeny.

Naturalists also distinguish between seasonal, dimorphic, melanic, and albino forms.

A melanic form of the female sometimes occurs in which the wings are almost wholly dull blackish on both sides.

"It was the melanic type of the jaguar and very rare," he said regretfully.

Perhaps a melanic variety of the more widely spread A. tniolella.

It is blackish in colour, but is not a melanic variety of the last.

Dr. Hodgson has recently obtained several of these melanic specimens in Sussex.

Breeding experiments have shown that these melanic races are sometimes “dominant” to their parent-stock.

Specimens of the last form are intermediate between the type and the melanic ab.

Word Value for melanic
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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