nigrification
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin nigrificare (“to blacken”), from niger (“black”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.
Noun
editnigrification (uncountable)
- The act or process of making black.
- 1812, David Stewart Erskine, The Anonymous and Fugitive Essays of the Earl of Buchan:
- the physical disquisition concerning the nigrification of the rete mucosa in blacks