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   Al·bi·no

   /alˈbīˌnō/

   

   noun

   • 1. 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"
   • ▪ an abnormally white animal or plant: "an albino tiger"

   Word 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).

   Derivatives

   • 1. albinotic adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • A

     1

   • L

     1

   • B

     3

   • I

     1

   • N

     1

   • O

     1

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