A town in Albania

Congenital excess of melanin pigmentation in the skin, hair, feathers and/or eyes.

Containing melanin. / (by extension) Belonging or relating to black people.

(obsolete, organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of melanic acid.

Of, relating to, or exhibiting melanism. / (soil science) Melanocratic. / (archaic, ethnology) black-haired

A creature, such as a moth, exhibiting melanism.

plural of melanism

plural of melanization

(biochemistry) Conversion into melanin, or an increase in the concentration of melanin within (a tissue or organism)

(transitive) To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.