erythrogen

English

Etymology

From erythro- +‎ -gen.

Noun

erythrogen (uncountable)

1. carbon disulphide
2. A substance reddened by acids, supposed to be contained in flowers.
3. A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “erythrogen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)