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cyanine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English

Syllables
cya-nine
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of synthetic polymethine blue dyes used in photography etc.

Etymology

From cyan + -ine.

Inflected Forms

cyanines (plural)

Derived Forms

cryptocyanine hemicyanine hemocyanine hydrocyanine indocyanine merocyanine neocyanine phthalocyanine

Frequently Paired Words

cyanin

Questions

What does cyanine mean?
Any of a family of synthetic polymethine blue dyes used in photography etc.
Where does cyanine come from?
From cyan + -ine.

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