Anthocyanin

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  • noun. Any of various water-soluble pigments that impart to flowers and other plant parts colors ranging from violet and blue to most shades of red.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The dissolved coloring matter in blue flowers.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Same as anthokyan.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of many water-soluble red to violet plant pigments related to the flavonoids.
    • Word Usage
    "The anthocyanin is in both cases the same, but in the rose it is bound to a plant acid and is therefore red, whereas in the cornflower it is bound to an alkali and is therefore blue."
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    41-44  biliary  chlorophyll  coal tar  cyanin  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    E163  food colouring  
    variant
    anthokyan  
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