cyanic

[ sahy-an-ik ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cyanic¹

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

Example Sentences

It’s Classic Blue, a darker, more familiar shade than its cyanic siblings.

From New York Times

Dr Kozyrev is also quoted as saying: “My investigations dealt with the Aristarchus crater. Two spectrograms of the inner slope of the crater … showed an unusual red spot approximately one to two km across … after measurements of the spectrograms obtained by the Crimean observatory, it was established for the first time that this spot is the result of an escape of gases — molecular nitrogen and cyanic gas.”

From Nature

“And the cyanic areas truly are liquid rock?”

From Nature

The first, which included the yellow, was called the Xanthic; the second, which omitted the yellow, the Cyanic.

From Project Gutenberg

Cyanic, flowers with all shades of blue and red without yellow, 45.

From Project Gutenberg