reflectin (English, noun)
expansion: reflectin (countable and uncountable, plural reflectins)
Senses:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: reflectins
tags: plural