Anthocyanin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of many water-soluble red to violet plant pigments related to the flavonoids.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as anthokyan.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The dissolved coloring matter in blue flowers.
    • 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."
    Variant
    anthokyan   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    food colouring    E163   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    polyphenolic    cyanin    thiamine    otolith    melanin   
     
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