Word Meanings - NITROPRUSSIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.

• Derivation
  A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
• Indirectly
  In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly.
• Purpled
  of Purple
• Yellow-eyed
  Having yellow eyes.
• Yellowwood
  The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian F
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Colorado beetle
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. S
• Complexedness
  The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication.
• Derivational
  Relating to derivation.
• Purpleheart
  A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
• Yellowfin
  A large squeteague.
• Yellowwort
  A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Colorado group
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Complexion
  The state of being complex; complexity.
• Derivative
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.
• Nitroprussic
  Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called

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