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adj. - Of or pertaining to or affected by complete inability to produce pigment, a recessive genetic condition of wide occurrence especially in respect to coat, skin, and eye color of mammals

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  • The albinistic is the lightest coloured, almost white; common and menil are darker, and melanistic is very dark, even black (easily confused with the Sika Deer).
  • A-- what's awesome about pythons -- and this is a really cool one -- this is an albinistic python.
  • Because White olms produce melanin when kept in sunlight (and are thus not albinistic as sometimes implied), the difference in colour between the two forms is not...
  • It is albinistic or illustrates albinism.
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