Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schemochrome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: schemochrome
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Colouration produced by microscopic structures that reflect/refract light rather than pigments.

Example Sentences

"First, a blue pigment is known from birds (rhodoxanthin, a xanthophyll producing the blue of fruit pigeons, Ptilinopus; see Buckley 1982 : 61), although the blue of parrots is almost certainly not based on a pigment (biochrome), but rather is a schemochrome (structural color)."
"In some groups a schemochrome overlies a conspicuous biochrome, with spectacular effect."
"The fine scales on the wings of some butterflies and the surface of scarab beetles produce schemochrome colours (Chapman, 1998a)."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “shape”) + -chrome, from χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”).

Inflected Forms

schemochromes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

biochrome

Questions

What does schemochrome mean?: Colouration produced by microscopic structures that reflect/refract light rather than pigments.
Where does schemochrome come from?: From Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “shape”) + -chrome, from χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”).

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