indican
English
editEtymology
editSee indigo.
Noun
editindican (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
editNoun
editindican m (plural indicans)
Further reading
edit- “indican”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
editVerb
editindican
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editindican n (uncountable)
Declension
edit declension of indican (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) indican | indicanul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) indican | indicanului |
| vocative | indicanule | |
Spanish
editVerb
editindican
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