ANIMAL PIGMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal pigment mean? 

• ANIMAL PIGMENT (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL PIGMENT has 1 sense:

1. pigment occurring in animals

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL PIGMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL PIGMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pigment occurring in animals

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("animal pigment" is a kind of...):

pigment (dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal pigment"):

bilirubin; haematoidin; hematoidin (an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice)

urobilin (brown bile pigment formed from urobilinogens and found in feces and in small amounts in urine)

luciferin (pigment occurring in luminescent organisms (as fireflies); emits heatless light when undergoing oxidation)

melanin (insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers)