Safranin

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  • n. A biological stain used in histology and cytology.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.
  • n. A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.
  • n. An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dye    dyestuff   
    Variant
    spanish red    china lake    carthamin   
    Hyponym
    pheno-safranine   
     
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