Definitions for fuchsin

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fuchsin fuch·sin

Spelling: [foo k-sin]

IPA: /ˈfʊk sɪn/

Fuchsin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in fuchsin (cfhinsu).

Definitions for fuchsin

noun

1. a greenish, water-soluble, solid, coal-tar derivative, obtained by the oxidation of a mixture of aniline and the toluidines, that forms deep-red solutions: used chiefly as a dye.

Origin of fuchsin

First recorded in 1860-65; fuchs(ia) + -in²

Examples for fuchsin

If the bacilli are stained red with fuchsin, the background should be made blue.

This layer may be quite thin and evident only when treated with fuchsin or Bismarck brown, or it may be of considerable thickness.

Wines often contain coloring matters which at once completely arrest digestion, such as methylin blue and fuchsin.

This resembles that for the tubercle bacillus, viz., drying on a cover glass and staining with fuchsin or methyl-olin.