noun.
A colorless or pale yellow aromatic liquid, C3H3NS, containing a ring composed of a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom, and three carbon atoms, used in making dyes and fungicides.
noun.
Any of various derivatives of this compound.
noun.
Any of a class of unsaturatedheterocycliccompounds containing a ring of three carbonatoms, a sulphur and an nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C3H3SN.
Word Usage
"Cooked Tomatoes When fresh tomatoes are cooked down to make a thick sauce, they gain some flavors—notably rose- and violet-like fragments of the carotenoid pigments—but they lose the fresh “green” notes provided by unstable fragments of fatty acids and by a particular sulfur compound a thiazole."