Melanin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 175 anagrams from letters in melanin (aeilmnn).
First recorded in 1835-45; melan- + -in2
But the world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin.
Brown or black eye-color is due to a melanin pigment absent from the blue or gray eye.
The pigment of the secretion is melanin, and its function is to produce a dense opacity in the water, which conceals the animal.
The melanotic cancer contains abundant pigment, melanin, within its cells.
The colour varies from brown to black, according to the amount of melanin pigment present.
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.