melanated
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "He suggested that upon penetration, or shortly afterwards, a parasite may supply the necessary missing substance for the completion of this reaction with the result that the characteristic melanated cysts appear."
- "In the only black-spot Neascus which has been studied experimentally, the metacercaria is fully developed by the time the cyst becomes melanated."
- "Melanated and non-melanated tissues were quantitatively assayed for selective absorption of labelled tyrosine and/ or its derivatives."
- "It was first created during colonial times, and it is still being created today, in its postcolonial forms, by those who rely on visible phenotypical variables, such as melanated skin or "foreign" speech behavior as segregating variables that help them to secure "white" racial ascendancy. Today, Euro-Americans no longer sustain an absolute monopoly over such resources, but their gatekeeper functions still determine the visibly melanated people who will also get to share these resources."
- "The Yucatan mini-pig skin is melanated and, on the flank, is of similar thickness to that on the human arm, which has high probability of accidental exposure."
- "For some reason, in talking about people of color and our skin, I blurted out how we are very “melanated,” pertaining to the amounts of melanin in our skin. I am not really sure how the word came to my mind because it is not an actual word, but it stuck with me."