Al-bī'no

(Synop., § 130); pl. ALBINOS, n. [It. albino, whitish, from albo; Lat. albus, white.] Any person of a preternatural whiteness of the skin and hair, and a peculiar redness of the iris and pupil of the eye.

☞ The term was originally applied by the Portuguese to the white negroes they met with on the coast of Africa.