Crossword clues for albino
albino
- White elephant, for one
- White animal
- Sans melanin
- Rare rhinoceros or ape
- Pure white animal
- Pink-eyed rabbit
- Pigmentation anomaly
- Melanin-deprived individual
- Deficient in pigmentation
- Abnormally white animal — on Bali (anag)
- White-haired person, perhaps
- White rabbit, e.g
- The monk in 'The Da Vinci Code' was one
- Spooner of Spoonerism fame, for one
- Silas of "The Da Vinci Code," e.g
- Silas of 'The Da Vinci Code' was one
- Silas in "The Da Vinci Code," for one
- Silas in 'The Da Vinci Code,' e.g
- Rare ape
- Plant lacking chlorophyll
- Pink-eyed rat
- Pink elephant, e.g
- Philatelist's inkless collectible
- Person without melanin
- Person lacking pigmentation
- Person lacking pigment
- One lacking melanin
- One at high risk for sunburn
- Melanin lacker
- Many a white animal
- Many a ferret
- Like some rare squirrels
- Like a white whale
- Light-colored one
- Lacking normal skin pigment
- Just about all white
- Having achromatosis
- Having abnormal pigmentation
- Far from a colorful character
- Fair-haired boy, possibly
- Deficiency in pigmentation
- Creature lacking color
- Certain animal
- Animal or plant lacking pigmentation
- Animal lacking pigment
- 'The Da Vinci Code' monk Silas, e.g
- White mouse, for example
- Hardly colorful
- Pink-eyed panther, say
- Like a white rat
- Rare birth
- White rat, e.g.
- Lacking pigmentation
- Like some rats
- Red-eyed one
- Like some lab mice
- White rabbit, e.g.
- Lacking melanin
- Animal oddity
- Accidentally uninked embossed stamp
- Colorless animal
- White elephant, e.g.
- Typical lab rat, e.g.
- Person prone to sunburn
- Colorless sort
- Silas in "The Da Vinci Code," notably
- Pink elephant, e.g.
- A person with albinism white hair and pink eyes and milky skin
- Pigment-deficient animal
- Genetically abnormal one
- Type of mouse
- One lacking normal pigmentation
- White elephant, e.g
- Animal lacking in color
- One lacking pigmentation
- White Britain's going backwards
- Animal lacking pigmentation
- Abnormally white creature
- Unpigmented creature
- White rat, e.g
- Moby Dick, for one
- One lacking in pigment
- Paler than pale
- Moby Dick, e.g
- Melanin-deficient individual
- One lacking pigment
- Moby-Dick, e.g
- White whale, e.g
- White mouse, e.g
- White-skinned animal
- White elephant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Albino \Al*bi"no\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Albinos. [Sp. or Pg.
albino, orig. whitish, fr. albo white, L. albus.]
A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some
defect of organization the substance which gives color to the
skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An
albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same
color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris.
The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice,
elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from
the absence of chlorophyll.
--Amer. Cyc.
Note: The term was originally applied by the Portuguese to negroes met with on the coast of Africa, who were mottled with white spots.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1777, from Spanish or Portuguese albino, from Latin albus "white" (see alb). Used by Portuguese of white-spotted African negroes. Extended 1859 to animals having the same peculiarity. A female albino formerly was an albiness (1808).
Wiktionary
a. congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism n. (context countable English) A person or animal congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born with albinism.
WordNet
n. a person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink
Wikipedia
An albino is an organism with the disorder albinism — the congenital lack of normal pigmentation.
Albino may also refer to:
Albino (also known as The Night of the Askari, Death in the Sun and Whispering Death) is a 1976 German thriller directed by Jürgen Goslar and starring Christopher Lee, James Faulkner and Sybil Danning filmed on location during the Rhodesian Bush War. The film is based on the novel The Whispering Death by Daniel Carney.
Albino (Augusta Seger) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Her first appearance was in Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1 (1998) and was created by Tom DeFalco and Jeff Johnson.
Albino is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Albino Luciani (1912–1978), better known as Pope John Paul I
- Albino Souza Cruz (1869–1962), Brazilian businessman
- Albino Núñez Domínguez (1901–1974), Galician writer and poet
- Albino Jara (1877–1912), provisional President of Paraguay from 19 January to 5 July 1911
- Albino Pérez (died 1837), Mexican soldier and politician
- Francisco Alves Albino (1912–1993), Portuguese footballer
- Albino Pierro (1916–1995), Italian poet
- Albino SyCip, Chinese-Filipino financier
- Johnny Albino (1919–2011), Puerto Rican bolero singer
- Nina and Natalie Albino (identical twins born 1984), who form the musical duo Nina Sky
An Albino is a type of chess problem in which, at some stage in the solution, a White pawn, beginning on its starting square, makes each of its four possible moves: one square forward, two squares forward, capture to the left, and capture to the right. When a Black pawn exhibits similar activity it is instead termed a Pickaninny.
A simple example of an Albino is the problem to the right, a mate in 2 (White moves first and must checkmate Black in two moves against any defense). It is by Camil Seneca and was first published in the April 1949 edition of the Bulletin Ouvrier des Echecs. The first move of the solution (or key) is 1.Nb1. This threatens 2.Ra3#. Black has four ways to defend against this, each of which leads to a different move of the White pawn. After 1...Bb3, the only move that mates is 2.cxb3# (the pawn captures to the left). After 1..Bd3, the only mate is 2.cxd3# (capturing to the right). After 1...Bb5 only 2.c3# will do (forward one square; 2.c4 is no good because the b4 square needs to be covered by the pawn now the White queen has been cut off). After 1...Bd5 only 2.c4# will do (2.c3 is no good, because Black could play 2...Bb3).
The Albino pawn moves need not necessarily be in the post-key play of the problem; they can instead be tries: moves which almost solve a problem but which fail to a single Black defense. The mate in 2 to the right, which combines the Albino with a Pickaninny, is an example. It is by Lev Loshinsky and was published in Moskau-Rostow in 1930. The key is 1.Nfd5 (threatening 2. Qf4#) with the variations 1...g5 2. h8=Q#; 1...Rxc3/Rxd5 2.Qf5#; and 1...Rd4 2.Qxg7/f5#. The main point of the problem however, is in the Albino tries, each of which is refuted by a Pickaninny defense. The relevant variations are:
- 1.exd3 (capture to the left; threatens 2.Nd7#) fails to 1...gxf6 (capture to the right)
- 1.exf3 (capture to the right; threatens 2.Qg5# and 2.f4#) fails to 1...gxh6 (capture to the left)
- 1.e3 (one square forward; threatens 2.Qf4#) fails to 1...g5 (two squares forward)
- 1.e4 (two squares forward; threatens 2. Qf5#) fails to 1...g6 (one square forward)
In each of these cases there are other ways for Black to counter White's threat, but the Pickaninny move is the only one that doesn't give White a new mate (for example, after 1.exf3, Bg6 prevents White's threats, but is not any good because it allows 2.Rxe6#).
The nature of the Albino theme is such that in orthodox chess there must be at least four variations to show the four different moves of the White pawn. However, if the rules of circe chess are applied, the number of required variations can be reduced to two (circe is a chess variant in which captured pieces, rather than being removed from the board, are returned to their home squares). The problem to the right is an example; it is by Adrian Storisteanu and was first published in the British Chess Magazine in 1977. The problem is a helpmate in 2, which means Black moves first and cooperates with White to move to a position where Black is in checkmate after White's second move. This problem features grasshoppers (represented here by inverted queens), a fairy chess piece which moves along the same lines as a queen, but which must "hop" over another piece (friendly or enemy) and land on the square immediately beyond.
There are two solutions to the problem (note that in helpmates, Black's moves are given first):
- 1.Rd3 c3+ 2.Gaxc3(pc2) cxd3(Ra8)#
- 1.Rb3 c4+ 2.Gxc4(pc2) cxb3(Ra8)#
The first solution has the White pawn moving forward one square, then, after its rebirth on c2, capturing to the right; the second solution has the pawn first moving two squares and then capturing to the left. Problems like this, showing an Albino with fewer than four variations, are very unusual.
Usage examples of "albino".
The android wrapped the albino in a blanket before stuffing him into the biochem warfare suit.
He sat at the centre of his cell like an albino frog, working at some obscure cabbalistic grid, probably a malice puzzle.
The albino bled out quickly, jerking only a little as Placido Geist held his face in the dirt.
Here were bottle after bottle of dried lizards: the harmless albino cave gekko from Costa Rica, a bottle full of dried saliva glands from the Gila monster of the Sonoran Desert, two jars full of the shriveled corpses of the tiny red-bellied lizard of Australia.
The Albino looked up into his face and saw the veins standing out upon it as large as maccaroni stems, and strange though it may appear, it was only then that he recognized his deliverer.
Since the invisible man was an albino and his body produced no melanin, his job was easier.
Even among her kind, Juete was still considered more attractive than average, and there were few normal humans or compatible mues who could look at any albino without feeling desire.
The night was not warm, with the breeze coming off the gulf, but Pavlo sweated oilily in the limelight, and fumbled his commands to the dogs and the albino children and his wife, and kept glancing up at the sky, which had begun ruddily to lighten in the east.
Herbie tugged the decolletage of that peasant blouse down over her breasts, which were enormous, unbelievable, like albino watermelons with huge organically grown strawberries in the center--for a second he could only ogle them in gluttonous awe.
But what made the xoph so loathsome was that it was snowy-white, a repulsive albino thing, its stalk-like legs and bloated belly shaggy with stinking white fur, besoiled with oily droppings.
The albino, exhausted from his magical efforts to save them, looked down at the bloodied figure slumped in front of him in the saddle.
It seemed on subsequent reanalysis of the bodies that, queer as it might have seemed,every single inhabitant of the city had been an albino.
Under certain circumstances, the membrane surrounding blepharisma disintegrates and comes independently loose, like a cast-off shell, leaving the creature a transient albino.
He had no idea whether or not his pictures would verify the existence of chemosynthetic species, or would simply prove that blind albino shrimps lived in 200-degree water two and a half miles below the surface of the sea.
There were stunted midgets like Minikin and freakish giants like Trog, milk-skinned albinos and dwarves with heads too large for their diminutive bodies.