melanize

Other spellings

• (UK) melanise

Word parts

melanin + -ize

Verb

Plain form melanize

Third-person singular melanizes

Past tense melanized

Past participle melanized

Present participle melanizing

1. (transitive) If you melanize something, you convert it into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.
2. (transitive) If you melanize something, you deposit melanin into it.