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pigmentation
CEFRB2
/pˌɪɡməˈnteɪʃən/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
The natural coloring of skin, hair, eyes, or another material.
- 02
noun
Extra detailColoration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.
Examples
Melanin is responsible for the dark pigmentation of skin.
Some animals can change their pigmentation to blend in.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 2
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 3
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More examples
In contextThe unusual pigmentation of her skin was due to a rare condition.
It may hence be assumed that this apparently capillary pigmentation should be ascribed merely to an accumulation of pigment-molecules towards one side of the hepatic cells.
The neoplasm which, since the time of Laennec, is known by the designation Melanosis, is to be carefully distinguished from this pigmentation of the ordinary structures of the lung, which has been designated Anthracosis.
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Origin
noun
From pigment + -ation.