reflectin
Meanings
noun
- A protein, found in certain squids, that self-organizes into a film of regularly spaced stripes, the separation of which functions as a tunable diffraction grating to produce a range of reflective colours in the animal's skin
Word forms
Etymology
From reflect + -in.
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