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Pigmentation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment. countable, uncountable

    "It may hence be assumed that this apparently capillary pigmentation should be ascribed merely to an accumulation of pigment-molecules towards one side of the hepatic cells."

  2. 2
    coloration of living tissues by pigment wordnet
  3. 3
    the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings wordnet

Etymology

From pigment + -ation.

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