pyrrhotism

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  1. The fact or condition of being red or orange in color: specifically applied to the fact of having red hair. Finally, red hair is derived from dark hair by the conversion of more or less of the dark pigment into an equal amount of the orange. This last group for which he suggests the name pyrrhotism (pyrrhos = foxy-red) he considers to result from an easily occurring chemical modification of the melanochrome into pyrrhochrome pigments. Nature, July 2, 1908, p. 205.

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  1. Greek πυρρός, reddish, + -t- + -ism.
 

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