cyanic

American  

[sahy-an-ik] / saɪˈæn ɪk /

adjective

1. blue: applied especially to a series of colors in flowers, including the blues and colors tending toward blue.

2. Chemistry. containing or pertaining to the cyano group.

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Etymology

Origin of cyanic

First recorded in 1825–35; cyan- ¹ + -ic

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Example Sentences

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cyanic

He hurls it, rich with cyanic rancors, in the face of sham wherever he sees it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pale cyanic and roseate forms also sometimes occur in late fruitings; see next species.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

She sucked a deep breath of cyanic gas into her pulmonary pouch and spoke to me sweetly with a voice like distant thunder.

From Lonesome Hearts by R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

These from Schrader down, agree in portraying a brunescent form with yellow spores; Mr. Lister enters it with the cyanic series and so describes and figures it throughout.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

Hydrated cyanic acid is a volatile and highly blistering fluid, which cannot be brought into contact with water without being instantaneously decomposed.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Justus, Freiherr von Liebig

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