azurine

azurine (comparative more azurine, superlative most azurine)

1. Sky-blue; azure.

azurine (plural azurines)

1. A type of rudd or redeye, the blue roach of Europe (Scardinius erythrophthalmus, syn. Leuciscus caeruleus), so called from its color.

• “azurine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “azurine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.