reflectin
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
reflectin (countable and uncountable, plural reflectins)
- (biochemistry) 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