English Explanatory Dictionary

alampy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. abnormal bluish pigmentation in fish, caused by lack of guanine

Word forms

alampy alampia

Etymology

From German Alampie, coined (as Alampia) by Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1863), from Ancient Greek α- (a-, “not”) + λάμπω (lámpō, “to shine”).

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