indican
English
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Etymology
[edit]See indigo.
Noun
[edit]indican (usually uncountable, plural indicans)
- (organic chemistry) A glycoside obtained from plants of genus Indigofera, the source of natural indigo dye.
- (organic chemistry) An indigo-forming substance found in urine and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin); an indoxyl sulphate of potash.
- Synonym: uroxanthin
Derived terms
[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “indican”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]indican m (plural indicans)
Further reading
[edit]- “indican”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]indican
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]indican n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | indican | indicanul |
| genitive-dative | indican | indicanului |
| vocative | indicanule | |
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]indican
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