cyanope

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κυανῶπις (kuanôpis, “dark-looking”).

Noun

cyanope (plural cyanopes)

1. (anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with fair hair and brown eyes.
   • 1946, Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human Genetics, page 95:

     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.

   • 1953, Alan H. Kelso De Montigny, International Anthropological and Linguistic Review, page 61:

     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.

   • 1955, The Journal of Mental Science - Volume 101, page 541:

     There were too few in the cyanope group of the MacConaill types for comparison to be made.

See also

• glaucope

Further reading

• “cyanope”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.