Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to pigment; especially, secreting or containing pigment, as a cell or a tissue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments.
  • adjective (Med.) a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to pigment.

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Examples

  • When at last it shuts down its little still and creeps forth through the filmy veil, it is immature no longer, but a brilliant frog-hopper, sitting on the most conspicuous leaves, trusting by pigmental warning to advertise its inedibility, and watchful for a mate, so that the future may hold no dearth of Bubble Bugs.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • They can scream at Democrats for not destroying Harry Reid for his innocuous observations about Obama's pigmental advantage spoken in private company.

    A conservative blog for peace 2010

  • To explore if these elements might be functional in the ocular tissues, we first examined the association of the expressions of PP2A-Aα with that of the four transcription factors, CREB, ETS-1, SP-1 and AP-2α in the retinal pigmental epithelial cells (ARPE-19) and the embryonic lens epithelial cells (FHL124 cells).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles He-Ge Chen et al. 2009

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