thionine

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English

Etymology

Of Ancient Greek origin. See thio- (“sulfur”).

Noun

thionine (countable and uncountable, plural thionines)

  1. (chemistry) An artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulfur derivative of certain aromatic diamines.
    Synonym: Lauth's violet
  2. (organic chemistry) The unsaturated nine-membered heterocycle having eight carbon atoms, one sulfur atom and four double bonds.

Synonyms

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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