alampy

Meaning

Noun

abnormal bluish pigmentation in fish, caused by lack of guanine

Origin

From German Alampie, coined (as Alampia) by Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1863), from Ancient Greek α- ("not") + λάμπω.

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