Safranine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of a family of dyes based on phenazine, used in the textile industry and as a biological stain.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. any of a class of red to blue azine dyes
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes
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    dye    dyestuff   
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