hemocyanin

[ hee-muh-sahy-uh-nin, hem-uh- ]

nounBiochemistry.
  1. a blue, copper-containing respiratory pigment in the plasma of many invertebrates.

Origin of hemocyanin

1
First recorded in 1835–45; hemo- + cyan-1 + -in2

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