Definition of Melanized

1. melanize [v] - See also: melanize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melanized

melanin
melaninization
melanins
melanise
melanisms
melanist
melanistic
melanists
melanite
melanites
melanitic
melanization
melanizations
melanize
melanized (current term)
melanizes
melanizing
melano
melano-
melanoacanthoma
melanoameloblastoma
melanoblast
melanoblastoma
melanoblasts
melanocarcinoma
melanochroi
melanochroic
melanochroite
melanochroites

Literary usage of Melanized

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Design, Operation and Training Manual for an Intensive Culture Shrimp Hatchery by Granvil D. Treece, Joe M. Fox (1999)
"The disease has not been observed in shrimp cultured in systems where there is at least some algae. Shrimp with black-death disease possess melanized ..."

2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1883)
"Another male (C) exposed at 18 hours old, and for 9 days, is melanized on upper side, but to a less extent than the male (A). On the under side of hind wing ..."

3. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1878)
"... according to McLachlan, becoming "melanized" in going northward, while others become paler. Such varieties have been described as different species. ..."

4. Guide to the Study of Insects, and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"... becoming "melanized" in going northward, while others become paler. Such varieties have been described as different species. Mr. Alfred Wallace finds ..."

5. The Butterflies of North America by William Henry Edwards (1879)
"3,) but the females were melanized, the greater part of the surface of the wings being black and transparent, (see figs. 4 and 5, pi. 3. ..."

6. Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium: Proceedings edited by Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann (1996)
"... a region 2 to 15 cm thick consisting of a mixture of plant litter in various stages of decomposition from slightly decomposed (a) to very melanized (b). ..."

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