1. Insoluble pigments that account for the colour of e.g. skin and scales and feathers

Derived forms: melanins

See also: melanize

Type of: animal pigment

Part of: cutis, feather, plumage, plume, skin, tegument

Encyclopedia: Melanin

• squire
• squirearchy
• squirm
• squirmer
• squirmy
• squirrel
• squirrel away
• squirrel cage
• squirrel corn
• squirrel monkey
• squirrel's-foot fern
• squirrel-sized
• squirrelfish
• squirreltail barley
• squirreltail grass
• squirt
• squirt gun
• squirter
• squirting
• squirting cucumber
• squish
• squishy
• squiz
• sr
• Sravana