leucoderm
/ˈluːkəˈdɝm/
leucoderm noun: a person with white or light skin; a person belonging to a light-skinned race.
Noun
leucoderm (plural leucoderms)
- A person with white or light skin; a person belonging to a light-skinned race
- These characters must, however, have begun as individual variations, and there is no reason to doubt that if systematic breeding experiments were kept up for a sufficiently long period, with albinoes or leucoderms, or if these characters came into play in natural or sexual selection, races of...1894 March 10, G. L. Magruder, C. W. Stiles, “An Extreme Case of Leucoderma in a Negro, with a Comparison of Similar Conditions in Various Animals”, in Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine...
- It is also admitted that these gradations in colour have a protective value; in the case of the melanoderms against the actinic rays of the sun and in that of the leucoderms against cold, since white is the best colour for keeping in the heat of the body.1924, A[lfred] C[ort] Haddon, The Races of Man and Their Distribution, Cabridge: at the University Press, page 7
Forms of leucoderm
| plural | leucoderms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | leukoderm |
Origin of leucoderm
From leuco- + -derm.
Questions about leucoderm
- What does leucoderm mean?
- Leucoderm means a person with white or light skin; a person belonging to a light-skinned race.
- What part of speech is leucoderm?
- Leucoderm is a noun.
- How do you pronounce leucoderm?
- Leucoderm is pronounced /ˈluːkəˈdɝm/.
- What is the plural of leucoderm?
- The plural of leucoderm is leucoderms.
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