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Pigment vs Unpigmented – What’s the difference?

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Pigment vs Unpigmented - What's the difference?
As a noun pigment is pigment.

As an adjective unpigmented is not pigmented.

pigment

English

(wikipedia pigment )

Noun

(en noun )

  • (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells
    • Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants’ green colouring.
  • A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder
    • Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
  • (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Derived terms

    * pigmentary

    Related terms

    * pimiento

    Verb

    (en verb )

  • To add color or pigment to something.

    • Derived terms

    * pigmentation

    Anagrams

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    unpigmented

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective )

  • Not pigmented.
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    • , passage=When the changes produced by congestion are visible, as in the eye, the nostril, the mouth, the genital organs, and on the surface of the body in white or unpigmented animals, the part appears red from the increase of blood
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