Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

auramine

American  
[awr-uh-meen, -min] / ˈɔr əˌmin, -mɪn /

noun

Chemistry.

  1. a yellow, crystalline solid, C 17 H 22 ClN 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.

Etymology

Origin of auramine

1880–85; < Latin aur ( um ) gold + amine

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.