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indican

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
in-di-can
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A glycoside obtained from plants of genus Indigofera, the source of natural indigo dye.

Uncountable

noun

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.

Uncountable

Etymology

See indigo.

Usage

Inflected Forms

indicans (plural)

Derived Forms

indicanuria indiglucin indihumin pseudoindican

Synonyms

uroxanthin

Questions

What does indican mean?
A glycoside obtained from plants of genus Indigofera, the source of natural indigo dye.
Where does indican come from?
See indigo.

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