erythrosin
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek; see erythro-.
Noun edit
erythrosin (countable and uncountable, plural erythrosins)
- (chemistry) A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.
- (chemistry) A red dyestuff obtained from fluorescein by the action of iodine.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “erythrosin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)