Definition of Anthocyanin

1. n. Same as Anthokyan.

Definition of Anthocyanin

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any of many water-soluble red to violet plant pigments related to the flavonoids. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anthocyanin

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Medical Definition of Anthocyanin

1. A blue, purple or red, accessory pigment found in plants. Anthocyanins are water-soluble glucosides that are not directly involved in photosynthesis and can mask the green of chlorophyll giving the plant a red purple colour. Compare: carotenoid. (13 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthocyanin

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

Literary usage of Anthocyanin

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

1. Botanical Microtechnique: A Hand-book of Methods for the Preparation by A[lbrecht] Zimmermann (1893)
"anthocyanin is readily soluble in water, and has iii this solution, ... Whether all the pigments called anthocyanin are chemically identical must be ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"In green-leaved plants anthocyanin is most usually met with in places which ... It is difficult to say whether anthocyanin exercises a photochemical effect ..."

3. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1917)
"between anthocyanin and sugar. He found that in the leaves of Rheum, some of the veins of which had been accidentally severed, anthocyanin made its ..."

4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"The most familiar occurrence of anthocyanin aside from its presence in pink, ... anthocyanin appears to originate through the oxidization of a pale yellow ..."

5. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF anthocyanin.—At the present time it is very difficult to determine the nature of the chemical processes which underlie the formation ..."

6. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Henry Kraemer (1916)
"ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF anthocyanin.—At the present time it is very difficult to determine the nature of the chemical processes which underlie the formation ..."

7. The Simple Carbohydrates and the Glucosides by Edward Frankland Armstrong (1919)
"The soluble pigments of flowering plants—red, purple, and blue— which are termed collectively anthocyanin by botanists, are regarded similarly as oxidation ..."

8. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"Here belongs also the especially strong development of anthocyanin in dry, poor localities, which becomes noticeable even in the arctic regions, ..."

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