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melanisation

melanisation is the alternative form of melanization.

Meaning of melanization

Noun

melanization (plural melanizations)

  1. Conversion into melanin, or an increase in the concentration of melanin within (a tissue or organism)
    • the melanization of larvae

Forms of melanisation

pluralmelanisations

Questions about melanisation

What is melanisation the alternative form of?
Melanisation is the alternative form of melanization.

Words near melanisation in the dictionary

  1. melaninlike
  2. melaninogenesis
  3. melanins
  4. Melanippe
  5. Melanippus
  6. melanisation
  7. melanisations
  8. melanise
  9. melanised
  10. melanises
  11. melanising

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