indican
/'indikæn/
📖 中文释义
- n. [化]糖苷
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other
- plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter
- taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc.,
- it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural
- indigo.
- n. An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other
- animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and
- uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K,
- and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called
- also uroxanthin.