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Etymology

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Blend of indican +‎ glucin

Noun

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indiglucin (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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