Usually means: Organelle responsible for pigment production.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanosome: Merriam-Webster
  2. melanosome: Collins English Dictionary
  3. melanosome: Wiktionary
  4. melanosome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. melanosome: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. melanosome: Dictionary.com
  7. Melanosome (geology), Melanosome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melanosome: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanosome: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. melanosome: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (melanosome)

▸ noun:  (biology) Any organelle that contains melanin.

Similar:
melanization, chromogen, melanotrope, melanisation, mitosome, pheomelanogenesis, Melanochroi, chromatocyte, eumelanization, chromocyte, more...

Opposite:
leucosome, albinosome, achromosome

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Similar:
melanization, chromogen, melanotrope, melanisation, mitosome, pheomelanogenesis, Melanochroi, chromatocyte, eumelanization, chromocyte, more...

Opposite:
leucosome, albinosome, achromosome



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