indican
English edit
Etymology edit
See indigo.
Noun edit
indican (usually uncountable, plural indicans)
- (organic chemistry) A glucoside obtained from woad and other plants, the source of natural indigo.
- (organic chemistry) An indigo-forming substance found in urine and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin); an indoxyl sulphate of potash.
Synonyms edit
- (indigo-forming substance found in urine): uroxanthin
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “indican”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Noun edit
indican m (plural indicans)
Further reading edit
- “indican”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Verb edit
indican
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
indican n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of indican (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) indican | indicanul |
genitive/dative | (unui) indican | indicanului |
vocative | indicanule |
Spanish edit
Verb edit
indican