Definition of Melanos

1. melano [n] - See also: melano

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melanos

melanomata
melanomatosis
melanonychia
melanopathy
melanophage
melanophilin
melanophlogite
melanophore
melanophore-expanding principle
melanophores
melanoplakia
melanoprotein
melanopsin
melanorrhagia
melanorrhoea
melanos (current term)
melanoscope
melanoses
melanosis
melanosis circumscripta precancerosa
melanosis coli
melanosity
melanosome
melanosomes
melanostatin
melanostibite
melanotekite

Literary usage of Melanos

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

1. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1901)
"... Auk, iv, July, 1887, 245 (Island of Old Providence, Caribbean Sea; coll. CB Cory). Genus melanos-PIZA Ridgway. ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... which belonged to Cyzicus ; and Strabo fays, that near it there was an ifland of that name, and mentions cape melanos, either the north-eaft cape of the ..."

3. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Both albinos and melanos often arise as sports or saltations in a brood or litter of normally colored individuals. That they are blastogenic variations is ..."

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