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tance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition fr…

The state or condition of being an albino; albinism.

Affected with albinism.

A female albino. Holmes.

The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

White and black; -- said of a white animal of a black species, or the albino of the negro race.

An albino. [Also written leucoethiops.]

The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents.

White; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.

an monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

ee Woolly bear, under Woolly. -- White money, silver money. -- White mouse (Zoöl.), the albino variety of the common mouse. -- White mullet (Zoöl.), a silvery mullet (Mugil curema) ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; -- called also blue- back mullet, and liza. -- White nun (Zoöl.), the smew; -- s…