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reflectin

The English word “reflectin” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A protein, found in certain squids, that self-organizes into a film of regularly spaced stripes, the separation of which functions as a tunable diffraction grating to produce a range of reflective colours in the animal's skin

Etymology

From reflect + -in.

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