单词 | erythrism |
释义 | erythrismn. Abnormal or excessive redness (in the plumage of birds or hair of mammals); a red variety (of some recognized species). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > abnormal pigmentation melanism1843 erythrism1886 1886 Proc. Zool. Soc. 77 Erythrism is particularly common among the Mungooses. 1893 Athenæum 28 Jan. 124/3 Mr. Hose thought that this species might possibly be only an erythrism of S[emnopithecus] chrysomelas. 1908 Zoologist 12 136 A good example of the same erythrism was that by Mr. McLean in the summer of 1906. 1930 E. W. Hendy Wild Exmoor 297 Erythrism, or excess of red colouration, may be produced..by feeding birds upon red pepper. 1962 New Scientist 9 Aug. 284/2 All examples of albinism (whitening),..xanthism (yellowing) or erythrism (reddening) are throwing light on genetic divergence. Derivatives eryˈthristic adj. exhibiting erythrism. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [adjective] > other disorders gall-bitten1482 poor1539 melanistic1873 melanotic1874 lesioned1881 melanic1882 erythristic1910 osteofibrotic1938 1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 489/1 A third colour-phase, the ‘erythristic’ or red, is represented by the sandy cat. 1923 Glasgow Herald 17 Mar. 6 The variety, technically called ‘erythristic’, occurs among ferrets as well as among polecats. 1936 Discovery Feb. 57/1 Another collector kicked guillemots' eggs into the sea in the hope that subsequent layings might produce the erythristic eggs for which he was looking. 1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles II. 11 (Calandra lark) Erythristic eggs occur. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1886 |
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