True total melanism is unknown in man, in whom is only observed partial melanism, characterized simply by a pronounced coloration of part of the integument.
Melanism is an anomaly, the exact contrary of the preceding.
In the Natural History Museum in London there are stuffed examples of albinism and melanism in the lower animals.
This progressive Melanism has arisen in certain families only, and may be confined to certain species only, within those families.
Referring to a previous note[27] on the question of the melanism of the various insular forms of Lacerta muralis he writes: "I also alluded (l.
Melanism arises from the spreading of large black spots or bars, or, as in Biston betularia, a white moth peppered with black, dots by the confluence of small spots; for this insect in the north is sometimes entirely black.
This melanism never appears until the second or third year of life, the young being marked like the typical form.
Melanism is frequent in snakes, and sometimes affects all individuals in the same locality.
Melanism is frequent in this form, such specimens being entirely black except on the chin and throat, which are yellow variegated with red.
Melanism is rare in this species, only one specimen being known, from Nantes in Southern Brittany; uniform black, with the exception of a few white spots on the belly.
Plastral pattern partly obliterated by pattern obliterated by melanism in old individuals melanism only in adult males.
Albinoism and melanism are of this character, as well as most of those cases in which well-marked varieties occur in company with the parent species, but without any intermediate forms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melanism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: black; ebony; sable
