cyanope
cyanope noun: a person with fair hair and brown eyes.
Noun
cyanope (plural cyanopes)
- A person with fair hair and brown eyes.
- On this basis various genotypes may be listed as follows: EEHH - Fast dark, EEHh - Medium dark with a cyanope stage, EeHH - Medium dark with a glaucope state, EdHh - Slow dark with intermediate stage variable.1946, Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human Genetics, page 95
- The cyanope type (brown eyes, blond hair) and the glaucope type (blue eyes, black hair) probably arose independently as mutations, the glaucope being earlier in the European population, i.e., the mutation to blue eyes probably occurred before the mutation to fair hair.1953, Alan H. Kelso De Montigny, International Anthropological and Linguistic Review, page 61
Forms of cyanope
| plural | cyanopes |
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Origin of cyanope
From Ancient Greek κυανῶπις (kuanôpis, “dark-looking”).
Questions about cyanope
- What does cyanope mean?
- Cyanope means a person with fair hair and brown eyes.
- What part of speech is cyanope?
- Cyanope is a noun.
- What is the plural of cyanope?
- The plural of cyanope is cyanopes.
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