cyanine
noun
cyanine is a noun meaning “Any of a family of synthetic polymethine blue dyes used in photography etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-A-N-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyanine is cyanines.
What does cyanine mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a family of synthetic polymethine blue dyes used in photography etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cyanine
- cyanines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyanine?
Cyanine appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cyanine come from?
From cyan + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).