Definitions for eosin

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eosin e·o·sin

Spelling: [ee-uh-sin]

IPA: /ˈi ə sɪn/

Eosin is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in eosin (einos).

Definitions for eosin

noun

1. Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
2. any of a variety of eosinlike dyes.

Origin of eosin

1865-70; Greek ēṓs dawn (see eo-) + -in²

Examples for eosin

This difference recalls the sexual dimorphism of the eosin eye.

Since eosin is allelomorphic to white, its locus is also at 1.1.

eosin is the most useful character among all those in the left end of the chromosome.

The eosin-cherry daughters were darker than their eosin brothers.

eosin is allelomorphic to white and the white-eosin compound or heterozygote has the color of the eosin male.

Of these again, white (eosin), vermilion, and bar are of prime importance and will probably continue to claim first rank.

By suitable combinations of eosin and cherry most of the cases of polymorphism in butterflies may be simulated.

In Drosophila a mutant, eosin eye-color, appeared in which the female has darker eyes than the male.

Breeding experiments show that eosin eye color differs from the red color of the eye of the wild fly by a single mutant factor.

eosin may be said to be a modifier of vermilion or vermilion of eosin.