cyanope

plural cyanopes

1. datedanthropologyA person with fair hair and brown eyes.

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

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

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   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.

   1946, Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human Genetics, page 95

   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.

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