English Explanatory Dictionary

cyanine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of a family of synthetic polymethine blue dyes used in photography etc.

Word forms

cyanine cyanines

Etymology

From cyan + -ine.

Related words

cyanin

Derived words

cryptocyanine hemicyanine hemocyanine hydrocyanine indocyanine merocyanine neocyanine phthalocyanine

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