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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with fair hair and brown eyes..
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.
There were too few in the cyanope group of the MacConaill types for comparison to be made.
Use cyanope when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cyanope means (anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with fair hair and brown eyes..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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