Albino

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Definition
  • 1 : a person with pale skin, light hair, pinkish eyes, and visual abnormalities resulting from a hereditary inability to produce the pigment melanin.
Etymology

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

Word Origin & History

albino
1777, from Sp. or Port. albino, from L. albus "white" (see alb). Used by Portuguese of white-spotted African negroes. Extended 1859 to animals having the same peculiarity.

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