safranine, safranin, saffranine
(noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
safranine (plural safranines)
any of a class of red to blue azine dyes
Source: Wiktionary
Saf"ra*nine ( or ), n. Etym: [So called because used as a substitute for safranin.] (Chem.)
Definition: An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificailly by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 May 2024
(adjective) having an orbit between the sun and the Earth’s orbit; “Mercury and Venus are inferior planets”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
