Definition of Anthocyan

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthocyan

anthers
antheses
anthesis
anthill
anthills
anthimeria
anthimerias
anthiolimine
antho-
anthobian
anthobranchia
anthocarp
anthocarpous
anthocauli
anthocyan (current term)
anthocyanidin
anthocyanidins
anthocyanin
anthocyanine
anthocyanins
anthocyans
anthodia
anthodium
anthographies
anthography
anthoid
anthoinite
anthokyan
antholite

Literary usage of Anthocyan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"The anthocyan of leaves can be divided into four main categories :— (1) The ... The anthocyan is confined to the mesophyll in 64 per cent, of these, ..."

2. Practical Physiology of Plants by Francis Darwin, Edward Hamilton Acton (1909)
"In the last-named the acid anthocyan can be extracted by boiling a leaf in water, ... the strong alkalinity of the protoplasm makes the anthocyan alkaline, ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"prominent the abundance of anthocyan in many alpine plants as well as the fact that when a species grows on the plains as well as in the mountains it is in ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"anthocyan. — General features. — Contrasting with chlorophyll, xanthophyll, and carotin, which occur in plastids, are the red pigments ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1864)
"solutions of anthocyan from Vinca minor, Dracocephalum, and Primula Aurícula, violet, ... Dry anthocyan is turned yellow or brown by oil of vitriol, ..."

6. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1913)
"The observations of Boodle f also indicate the relationship between anthocyan and sugar. He found that in the leaves of Rheum, some of the veins of which ..."

7. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"In connection with the supposed identity of all anthocyan pigments the work ... The first description of an anthocyan pigment in crystalline condition was ..."

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