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What is the adjective for melanoid?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs melanise and melanize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

melanoid
  1. Relating to, or resembling, melanin.
  2. Relating to, or afflicted with, melanosis.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Captive breeding has created several colour variants including albino, leucistic, golden-albino, olive, melanoid, melanoid-albino and pied examples.”
      Melanoid pigments are not formed on peptone yeast iron agar and on tyrosine agar.”
melanic
  1. Of, relating to, or exhibiting melanism.
  2. (soil science) Melanocratic.
  3. Synonyms:
melanistic
  1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting melanism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Two-thirds of the sightings involved large black animals resembling melanistic leopards, also known as panthers.”
      “Its gorgeous spotted coat is distinctive, but jaguars with uncommon melanistic coloration are pure black.”
      “This is not strange because melanistic specimens could not be identified anyway.”
melanosomal
  1. relating to, or containing melanosomes
melanocytotic
  1. Of or relating to melanocytosis.
melanocytic
  1. Of or pertaining to melanocytes.
melanogenetic
  1. Relating to melanogenesis.
melanizing
  1. That causes melanization
melanoblastic
  1. Relating to melanoblasts.
melanosed
  1. Affected with melanosis.
melanotic
  1. Relating to melanosis.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Therefore, a final diagnosis of melanotic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma was made.”
      “The black pigment of the cells of melanotic tumors, also called melanin, is not to be directly traced to the hmoglobin.”
      “The tumor, a melanotic sarcoma, was about the size of a small walnut, and located in the small of the back of an elderly lady.”
melanuric
  1. Relating to melanuria.
melanomatous
  1. Relating to melanoma.
melanogenic
  1. That produces melanin
melasmic
  1. Relating to melasma.
melanised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of melanise
melanising
  1. present participle of melanise
melanized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of melanize
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