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Etymology

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From indigo and aniline.

Noun

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indoaniline (countable and uncountable, plural indoanilines)

  1. (chemistry) Any of a series of artificial blue dyes used as substitutes for indigo.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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