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Definition of Melanisms
1. melanism [n] - See also: melanism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melanisms
Literary usage of Melanisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"I believe at any rate, that it' is impossible to separate melanisms due to
reversion, from melanisms due apparently to development, as some instances may ..."
2. Melanism and Melanochroism in British Lepidoptera by James William Tutt (1891)
"I believe at any rate, that it is impossible to separate melanisms due to reversion,
from melanisms due apparently to development, as some instances may ..."
3. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"melanisms are rarer: Sir R. Payne- Gallwey states that he has one killed in Galway
Bay in 1877, and sold as a Glossy Ibis. The vignette represents the young ..."
4. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman (1890)
"Temperature " melanisms " are generally small, greyish, suffused or dusky, and
yellow and other bright colours ace ^akx ot ..."
5. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1871)
"Abnormitäten in meiner ornithologischen Sammlung. J. f. O. 1870, pp. 89-91.
Contains some notes on albinos and melanisms. ..."
6. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1889)
"Thrushes which are partial melanisms are also not uncommon in confinement, arising
from an unnatural diet, but I never read or heard of a wild one which was ..."
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