Usually means: Lacking pigment; white or pale.
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  1. leucous: Wordnik
  2. leucous: Wiktionary
  3. Leucous, leucous: Dictionary.com
  4. Leucous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. leucous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Leucous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. leucous: FreeDictionary.org
  8. leucous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  9. Leucous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (leucous)

▸ adjective:  (archaic) albino (having an uncharacteristically white skin color)

Similar:
ochroleucous, aligerous, allochroous, fulvous, lucifugous, veligerous, lepidopterous, brunnescent, lepidopteral, subcoriaceous, more...

Opposite:
melanistic, dark

Types:
albino, leukoderma, leukoma, leukosis, more...

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Similar:
ochroleucous, aligerous, allochroous, fulvous, lucifugous, veligerous, lepidopterous, brunnescent, lepidopteral, subcoriaceous, more...

Opposite:
melanistic, dark

Types:
albino, leukoderma, leukoma, leukosis, more...



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