"Pigmented" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to me as a possibility that what Marco Polo may have meant to say was that they were black all through, or some such phrase. The flesh of these fowls is deeply pigmented, and looks practically black; it is a feature that is very remarkable, and would certainly strike any one who saw it. The details that they 'lay eggs just like our fowls,' i.e., not pigmented, and are 'very ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... the choroid. This is a dark, pigmented, vascular and muscular membrane. The posterior portion is in contact with the retina. Anteriorly it forms the ciliary processes and ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.
... albus, white), in the usual acceptation, for a pigmentless individual of a normally pigmented race. Among some flowering plants, however, the character has become one of specific rank, .and among animals we have in the polar bear and the Greenland hare instances where partial albinism—for in them the eyes are black and other parts ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |
