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skinbow

skinbow adjective: of a zebrafish: having been genetically engineered to have a skin of many colours, to aid in the visualization of changes in its cells.

Adjective

skinbow (not comparable)

  1. (neologism) Of a zebrafish: having been genetically engineered to have a skin of many colours, to aid in the visualization of changes in its cells.

Origin of skinbow

Blend of skin + rainbow, coined in 2016 in a paper by C. H. Chen et al, Multicolor Cell Barcoding Technology for Long-Term Surveillance of Epithelial Regeneration in Zebrafish.

Questions about skinbow

What does skinbow mean?
Skinbow means of a zebrafish: having been genetically engineered to have a skin of many colours, to aid in the visualization of changes in its cells.
What part of speech is skinbow?
Skinbow is an adjective.

Words near skinbow in the dictionary

  1. skinable
  2. skinart
  3. skinball
  4. skinbound
  5. skinbound disease
  6. skinbow
  7. skinbyrd
  8. skinbyrds
  9. skincare
  10. skinch
  11. skinched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skinbow (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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