indican

English

Etymology

See indigo.

Noun

indican (usually uncountable, plural indicans)

  1. (organic chemistry) A glycoside obtained from plants of genus Indigofera, the source of natural indigo dye.
  2. (organic chemistry) 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.
    Synonym: uroxanthin

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “indican”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Noun

indican m (plural indicans)

  1. indican

Further reading

Galician

Verb

indican

  1. third-person plural present indicative of indicar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French indican.

Noun

indican n (uncountable)

  1. indican

Declension

Declension of indican
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative indican indicanul
genitive-dative indican indicanului
vocative indicanule

Spanish

Verb

indican

  1. third-person plural present indicative of indicar
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