glaucope
glaucope noun: a person with dark hair and blue eyes.
Noun
glaucope (plural glaucopes)
- A person with dark hair and blue 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 glaucope
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Origin of glaucope
From Ancient Greek γλαυκώψ (glaukṓps, “with blue-grey eyes”).
Questions about glaucope
- What does glaucope mean?
- Glaucope means a person with dark hair and blue eyes.
- What part of speech is glaucope?
- Glaucope is a noun.
- What is the plural of glaucope?
- The plural of glaucope is glaucopes.
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