"pigmentation" meaning in English

See pigmentation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pigmentation.wav Forms: pigmentations [plural]
Etymology: From pigment + -ation. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pigment|ation}} pigment + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pigmentation (countable and uncountable, plural pigmentations)
  1. Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: acropigmentation, depigmentation, dermapigmentation, hyperpigmentation, hypopigmentation, micropigmentation, overpigmentation, pigmentational, repigmentation, underpigmentation Translations (coloration of tissue): пигментация (pigmentacija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), pigmentació [feminine] (Catalan), 皮膚色素 (Chinese Mandarin), 皮肤色素 (pífū sèsù) (Chinese Mandarin), 天然顏色 (tiānrán yánsè) (Chinese Mandarin), pigmentaatio (Finnish), värjääntyminen (Finnish), väritys (Finnish), pigmentation [feminine] (French), Pigmentierung [feminine] (German), χρώση (chrósi) [feminine] (Greek), 色素沈着 (shikiso chinchaku) (alt: しきそちんちゃく) (Japanese), pigmentering [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), pigmentering [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), pigmentação [feminine] (Portuguese), pigmentare [feminine] (Romanian), пигмента́ция (pigmentácija) [feminine] (Russian), pigmentering [common-gender] (Swedish)

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