fluorochrome
noun
fluorochrome is a noun meaning “Any of various fluorescent dyes used to stain biological material before microscopic examination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-O-C-H-R-O-M-E, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluorochrome is fluorochromes.
What does fluorochrome mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various fluorescent dyes used to stain biological material before microscopic examination
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fluorochrome
- fluorochromes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluorochrome?
Fluorochrome appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 fluorochrome come from?
From fluoro- + -chrome.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).