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melanise

melanise is the alternative form of melanize.

Meaning of melanize

Verb

melanize (third-person singular simple present melanizes, present participle melanizing, simple past and past participle melanized)

  1. (transitive) To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.
    • At the extreme, the mosquito does not permit survival and transmission of the parasite: in genetically selected refractory mosquito strains, the parasites may be lysed as they traverse the midgut, or may be encapsulated and melanized at the early oocyst stage.1999 May 21, Jules A. Hoffmann et al., “Phylogenetic Perspectives in Innate Immunity”, in Science, volume 284, number 5418, →DOI, pages 1313–1318

Forms of melanise

third-person singular presentmelanises
present participlemelanising
past participlemelanised
pastmelanised

Words formed from melanise

Questions about melanise

What is melanise the alternative form of?
Melanise is the alternative form of melanize.

Words near melanise in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: melanise (page history and authors); melanize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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