Contextualizebeta

photopigment

noun

Etymology

From photo- + pigment.

  1. derived from pigmentum
  2. inherited from pigment
  3. prefixed as photopigment — “photo + pigment”

Definitions

  1. Any pigment that is unstable in the presence of light

    Any pigment that is unstable in the presence of light; used especially of the chromophore pigments in the rod cells and cone cells of the eye

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for photopigment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA