Albino Definition

ăl-bīnō
albinos
noun
A person or animal lacking normal pigmentation, with the result being that the skin and hair are abnormally white or milky and the eyes have a pink or blue iris and a deep-red pupil.
American Heritage
A person whose skin, hair, and eyes lack normal coloration because of genetic factors: albinos have a white skin, whitish hair, and pink eyes.
Webster's New World
A plant that lacks chlorophyll.
American Heritage
Any animal or plant abnormally lacking in color.
Webster's New World
An individual with albinism.
American Heritage Medicine
adjective
Designating or of such a person, animal, or plant.
An albino monkey.
Webster's New World

Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.

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Noun

Singular:
albino
Plural:
albinos

Origin of Albino

  • Ultimately (perhaps via Portuguese) from Spanish from albo white from Latin albus albho- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Portuguese albino, diminutive of albo, from Latin albus (“white”).

    From Wiktionary

Albino Sentence Examples

  • It is not only among albino animals that colour factors are carried in a latent condition, but also in white flowers.

  • Albino individuals may reappear among the offspring.

  • Smith, to occur among a breed of albino trout, which breed true and are reared in the State fish-hatcheries of America.

  • With birds and mammals, however, there is no doubt that complete albino individuals do occur; and among species which, like the jackdaw, certain deer and rabbits, are normally deeply pigmented.

  • In spite of the inquiry being only in its initial stages, there is already good evidence to believe that Cuenot's theory is correct, and that an albino is an individual whose skin lacks the power to secrete either the ferment or the chromogen.

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