melanizedadj.

1885 Standard 7 Aug. 5/1 The black Jews in Cochin..were native converts, not Hebrews who had become melanised under the Indian sun.

1995 Newsday (Nexis) 5 Feb. a36 To navigate the uncertain mine field posed by this melanized jury, the prosecution rushed in a black judge to handle the domestic violence charge against O. J. Simpson.

1893 Amer. Naturalist 27 165 A specimen of this species is the most thoroughly melanized of any seen.

1940 Proc. Royal Soc. 1939–40 B. 128 476 Occasionally a single egg or larva is found in a melanized condition.

1952 Science 10 Oct. 392/2 An aggregate of partly melanized spindle-shaped cells surrounded by normal blood cells.

1967 Ecol. Monogr. 37 294/1 The quantity and quality of light reaching the body cavity of all diurnal animals examined is remarkably consistent irrespective of the presence of a melanized peritoneum.

1997 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 9240/2 Aberrantly shaped, incompletely melanized melanosomes were observed in the pigmented retinal epithelium.

1941 S. A. Wilde Forest Soils v. 52 Melanized soils are the chernozems or blackearths of the forest (Schlich)... The profile of these soils is composed of a dark surface layer with incorporated ‘mull’ humus... The common expression ‘black top soils’ well points out the general appearance of melanized soils.

1962 Ecol. Monogr. 32 138/2 A melanized horizon distinguishes the Imperfectly-drained Brown Podsolic soils found on slopes where internal ground water seepage occurs.

1979 Ecol. Monogr. 49 256/1 A deeply melanized mull humus soil.