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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reddish lipochrome occurring in invertebrates.
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The white specimen, placed in spirit, yields a strong solution of chlorophyl; the red, again, yields a red solution, which was at once recognized as being tetronerythrin by my friend M. M.rejkowsky, who was at the same time investigating the distribution and properties of that remarkable pigment, so widely distributed in the animal kingdom.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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