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alizarine
Variant of alizarin
noun
a reddish-yellow crystalline compound, CH(CO)CH(OH), produced by oxidizing anthracene and used in dyeing wool, cotton, and silk and in the manufacture of dyestuffs: it was originally made from madder: sometimes called
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