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      [Noun]  | "industrial melanism" 


      1: genetically determined melanism as a population phenomenon especially in moths in which the proportion of dark individuals tends to increase due to differential predation especially by birds which more easily find and eat lighter-colored individuals in habitats darkened by industrial pollution


      Origin: 1928 ;

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