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melanins

melanins is the plural of melanin.

Meaning of melanin

Noun

melanin (countable and uncountable, plural melanins)

  1. Any of a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, fur, and feathers.
    • Generally, cephalopod ink includes melanin, enzymes related to melanin production, catecholamines, peptidoglycans, free amino acids and metals (Derby 2014) .2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian

Questions about melanins

What is melanins the plural of?
Melanins is the plural of melanin.

Words near melanins in the dictionary

  1. melanin
  2. melanin-challenged
  3. melaninization
  4. melaninlike
  5. melaninogenesis
  6. melanins
  7. Melanippe
  8. Melanippus
  9. melanisation
  10. melanisations
  11. melanise

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