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How to use albino in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective, noun

Albino means congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism. Example: “The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.”

More sentences with albino

  • The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.From the entry troglodyte
  • The albino leopard was quite remarkable, as it was completely unspotted.From the entry unspotted
  • Albinos, a nonalbino Tanzanian explained in voiceover translation, don't die if you kill them; they vanish.2021, Lucy Corin, The Swank Hotel. From the entry nonalbino
  • To study the anti-inflammatory effect of selected dihydroxyflavones (DHF) in albino rats.2015 May 1, S Umamaheswari, K.S.Sridevi Sangeetha, “Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Selected Dihydroxyflavones”, in Journal of Clinical and…. From the entry dihydroxyflavones
  • My first thought was that it was an albino situation, but apparently not.1996 November 3, Jackie Laderoute, “Lost Item Redux”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet). From the entry spirit moose
  • The child, a girl, was albino like April, and had exactly April's deep red eyes.1954 Theodore Sturgeon, The Golden Helix, in Leo Marguelis:Three Times Infinity, Fawcett Publications 1958, page 109. From the entry emerald
  • This wasn’t an albino but an erythristic badger, lacking black pigment in its fur through a genetic mutation.2015 October 10, Ed Douglas, “A special badger – with very special protectors”, in The Guardian. From the entry erythristic
  • It's unclear from the clip if the calf is a true albino or if its unusual colouring is caused by a genetic condition called leucism.2019 March 14, Earth Touch News, “Baby 'pink' elephant filmed frolicking on South African game reserve”, in Earth Touch News Network. From the entry champagne pink
  • The animals were 5-week-old, 23–27 g, murine pathogen free, Swiss albino male mice of the strain Udea:ICR(CD-2) bred in our high-tech microisolation animal facility.2015 November 5, “Demonstration of Therapeutic Equivalence of Fluconazole Generic Products in the Neutropenic Mouse Model of Disseminated…. From the entry microisolation
  • If two nonalbino individuals with an Aa genotype start a family, each of their children would have a 25% chance of being an albino (aa).2015, Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Essential Cell Biology, page 661. From the entry nonalbino
  • At the request of Defence Food Research Laboratory, 14 new anacardic compounds synthesised from tetrahydroanacardol were screened for toxicity to insect and albino rats.1967, Central Food Technological Research Institute (India), Annual Report - Central Food Technological Research Institute, page 2. From the entry anacardic
  • Rudino sees the albino girl, still sitting on the ground, and two black vultures at the top of an imbuzeiro, clearing their throats like old men.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 289. From the entry imbuzeiro
  • Then he noticed that the scar ran back into her hair, and Lower Appalachian towhead is the nearest thing in nature you will get to platinum blond, barring albinos.1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54. From the entry towhead
  • The cellular levels of chloroplast DNA (expressed as percent of total DNA) were found to be approximately two- to threefold higher in two albino hypohaploids than in a green hypohaploid.1989, Cannon GC, Van KT, Heinhorst S, Trinh TH, Weissbach A, “An examination of the plastid DNA of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia…. From the entry hypohaploid

Meaning of albino

  1. adjective Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.
  2. noun A person or animal congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born with albinism.

Full definition of albino

Questions about albino in a sentence

How do you use albino in a sentence?
Albino is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.”
What is a short sentence with albino?
“The albino leopard was quite remarkable, as it was completely unspotted.”
What does albino mean?
Albino means congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.

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