白はく変へん種しゅ

noun

leucism; pigmentation loss

A biological term for a condition in which an animal has reduced pigmentation, resulting in white or pale coloration but not the red eyes of albinism.

• その白はく変へん種しゅのクジャクは、目めが黒くろいままだ。

  That leucistic peacock still has dark eyes.

• 白はく変へん種しゅはアルビノとは異ことなり、メラニンが完かん全ぜんに欠けつ如じょしているわけではない。

  Leucism differs from albinism in that melanin is not completely absent.