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albino noun [ alˈbiːnəʊ ]

• a person or animal having a congenital absence of pigment in the skin and hair (which are white) and the eyes (which are usually pink).
• "people often assume that any white squirrel is an albino"
Origin: early 18th century: from Portuguese (originally denoting albinos among African black people) and Spanish, from albo (from Latin albus ‘white’) + the suffix -ino (see -ine1).


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