Cyanope
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cyanope is a noun meaning (anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with fair hair and brown eyes.
Meaning
(anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with fair hair and brown eyes.
Example Sentences
There were too few in the cyanope group of the MacConaill types for comparison to be made.
On this basis various genotypes may be listed as follows: EEHH - Fast dark, EEHh - Medium dark with a cyanope stage, EeHH - Medium dark with a glaucope state, EdHh - Slow dark with intermediate stage variable.
The cyanope type (brown eyes, blond hair) and the glaucope type (blue eyes, black hair) probably arose independently as mutations, the glaucope being earlier in the European population, i.e., the mutation to blue eyes probably occurred before the mutation to fair hair.
Word Forms
- cyanopes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cony, canephor, cobb, cyen, cornopean, coetanean.
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