pigmentary
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of pigmentary
1425–75; late Middle English: a dyer < Latin pigmentārius. See pigment, -ary
Example Sentences
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His team re-simulated the Turing mechanism, this time accounting for how the valleys between lizard scales might impede the flow of signals between pigmentary cells of different colors.
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2017
The same conclusion is reached when we analyse the nature of mimetic resemblance and realize how complex it really is, being made up of colours, both pigmentary and structural, pattern, form, attitude and movement.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
They are usually set down as due to varying degrees of oxidation in the pigmentary matter.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
It is the result of the too great intensity of the light incident upon the retina, and which in normal eyeballs is adequately diminished by the absorptive power of the pigmentary material.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Liebreich, occurrence of pigmentary retinitis in deaf-mutes, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
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