albino
noun
a person with pale skin, light hair, pinkish eyes, and visual abnormalities resulting from a hereditary inability to produce the pigment melanin.
albinos
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pluralof albino.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These bison lack the red eyes and pink nose of true albinos.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
The high temperatures are especially risky for people like teenage sisters Matilde and Angelica Aureli from Rome, who during extreme heat can only venture outside after 9 p.m. because they are albinos.
From Reuters ● Jul. 17, 2023
While leucistic creatures don’t have the same red or pink eyes as albinos, they also end up with lighter-colored features.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023
“In the wild, albinos would almost never survive,” Haught said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
Its face was of the ashen hue of a fresh corpse, while the white hair and pink eyes denoted the absence of pigment; a characteristic of albinos.
From The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
