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maskun

maskun noun: a congenital form of color blindness found in parts of Micronesia.

Noun

maskun (uncountable)

  1. A congenital form of color blindness found in parts of Micronesia.
    • Some of the Ishihara plates, paradoxically, cannot be seen by color-normals, but only by achromatopes—these have dots which are identical in hue, but vary slightly in luminance. The older children with the maskun were particularly excited by these—it turned the tables on me, the tester—and they...2012, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind

Questions about maskun

What does maskun mean?
Maskun means a congenital form of color blindness found in parts of Micronesia.
What part of speech is maskun?
Maskun is a noun.

Words near maskun in the dictionary

  1. masks of pregnancy
  2. masks up
  3. masksful
  4. masktard
  5. masktards
  6. maskun
  7. maskurbator
  8. maskurbators
  9. Maskwacis
  10. masl
  11. Masla

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