cyanic : Idioms & Phrases
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Cyanic acid
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noun a colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide
WordNet
(Chem.) , an acid,HOCN , derived from cyanogen, well known in its salts, but never isolated in the free state.
Webster 1913
Cyanic colors
(Bot.) , those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; opposed to xanthic colors. A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class.
