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tinctumutation (tinkt-myoo-TAY-shuhn) noun

   Change of colour.

[From Latin tinctus (a dyeing) + mutation (changing).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "Neither is tinctumutation the result of the direct influence of light."
   The Popular Science Monthly; 1895.

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