Word Meanings - CROCONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid. 2. Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid. Croconic acid , a yellow crystalline substance, C5O3 2, obtained from potassium carboxide, rhodizonic

Additional info about word: CROCONIC

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid. 2. Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid. Croconic acid , a yellow crystalline substance, C5O3 2, obtained from potassium carboxide, rhodizonic acid, and various phenol and quinone derivatives of benzene, and forming yellow or orange colored salts.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• DERIVE
  To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
• RHODIZONIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline substance obtained from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• SAFFRON
  A bulbous iridaceous plant having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus. 2. The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery,
• YELLOW
  1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome
• COLOR
  1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
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  An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K . Note: It is reduced from the carbonate
• CARBOXIDE
  A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.
• CROCONIC
  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid. 2. Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid. Croconic acid , a yellow crystalline substance, C5O3 2, obtained from potassium carboxide, rhodizonic
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
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  That may be reobtained.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.