Usually means: Reduced pigmentation, not complete albinism.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (leucism)

noun:  (zoology, pathology) An animal condition in which there is partial loss of pigmentation resulting in white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales or cuticle, but not the eyes (caused by a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin).

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