Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of a family of dyes based on phenazine, used in the textile industry and as a biological stain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A coal-tar color used in dyeing, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of amido-azotoluene and toluidine. It gives yellowish-red shades on wool, silk, and cotton, and is fairly fast to light.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes
Etymologies
- French safran, saffron (from Old French; see saffron) + -ine2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In commerce three brands of aniline are distinguished -- aniline oil for blue, which is pure aniline; aniline oil for red, a mixture of equimolecular quantities of aniline and ortho - and para-toluidines; and aniline oil for safranine, which contains aniline and ortho-toluidine, and is obtained from the distillate (_échappés_) of the fuchsine fusion.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“The most useful are hæmatoxylin, carmine, and various aniline colors, among which may be mentioned, besides gentian violet, safranine, Bismarck brown, methyl violet.”
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
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