bilicyanin
/bɪlɪˈsaɪənɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A blue (or bluish) bile pigment found in gallstones and formed by oxidation of biliverdin or bilirubin.
Uncountable
Etymology
From international scientific vocabulary, from German Bilicyanin. By surface analysis, bili- + cyan- + -in. The German word was naturalized into other languages as international scientific vocabulary (e.g., bilicyanin, bilicyanine).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Bilicyanin