melanin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: melanin	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for melanin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
melanin n insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Melanin \Mel"a*nin\, n. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black.] (Physiol.) A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called {fuscin}), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.