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SKIN COLOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The coloring of a person's face
Synonyms:
complexion; skin color; skin colour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("skin color" is a kind of...):
color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)
Attribute:
blond; blonde; light-haired (being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes)
brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skin color"):
blondness; fairness; paleness (the property of having a naturally light complexion)
rosiness; ruddiness (a healthy reddish complexion)
achromasia; lividity; lividness; luridness; paleness; pallidness; pallor; wanness (unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress))
sallowness (a sickly yellowish skin color)
tawniness (the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather)
darkness; duskiness; swarthiness (a swarthy complexion)
whiteness (lightness or fairness of complexion)
Context examples:
Given that octopuses have very precise control over the system by which their skin color changes, it is rare for them to trigger the response while sleeping.
(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In this study, researchers sought to identify and functionally characterize regions of the human genome associated with skin color in African populations.
(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)
This study of ethnically diverse populations in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Botswana has shed light on regions of the genome not previously associated with skin color.
(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)
In the first study of its kind, an international team of genomics researchers has identified new regions of the human genome that are associated with skin color variation in some African populations, opening new avenues for research on skin diseases and cancer in all populations.
(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)
