Synonyms for pigment
ˈpɪg məntpig·ment

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1. pigmentnoun

   dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)

   Synonyms:
   paint

2. pigmentnoun

   any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color

   Synonyms:
   paint

3. paint, pigmentverb

   a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating

   "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably"

   Synonyms:
   rouge, key, blusher, paint

4. pigmentverb

   acquire pigment; become colored or imbued

5. pigmentverb

   color or dye with a pigment

   "pigment a photograph"

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1. • Color
   • Coloring Material
   • Hue

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1. colouring material

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

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1. pigmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   paint, color, coloring matter

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1. List of paraphrases for "pigment":

   pigments, pigmentation

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1. Christian Yates:

   Piebaldism is actually a disease, it's caused by cells in the early embryo failing to migrate correctly.... failing to get to the right place. The cells which we're interested in, that cause piebaldism, are called melanocytes and they're responsible for pigmentation of hair and of the skin. These cells start at the back of the embryo and they try to migrate round through the skin and cover the whole of the( embryo's) skin. When they fail to do that properly you tend to get regions of skin or hair which are lacking in pigment, often regions at the front of an animal. This is common in cats...... tuxedo cats, and it's also common in horses and pigs and even in humans.

2. Dr Homer:

   The fundamental principle is that under every brown eye is a blue eye, the only difference between a brown eye and a blue eye is this very thin layer of pigment on the surface. Bright like the sky.

3. Christian Yates:

   Traditionally people thought that cells didn't make it to the front of embryos to pigment the belly because they just weren't migrating fast enough, what we've been able to show through our studies is that actually, if anything, cells in piebald animals migrate faster but they're just not proliferating enough. They're not making enough daughter cells to colonize - or cover - the whole region of the skin that needs to be covered by the time the pigmentation pattern is set down.

4. Dr Homer:

   If Dr Homer take that pigment away, then the light can enter the stroma -- the little fibers that look like bicycle spokes in a light eye - and when the light scatters it only reflects back the shortest wavelengths and that's the blue end of the spectrum.

5. Chad Eliason:

   Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you’d only see black dust. The pigment in the feathers is black, but the shapes of the melanosomes that produce that pigment are what make the colors in hummingbird feathers that we see.