orcine

orcine (countable and uncountable, plural orcines)

1. (organic chemistry) Dated form of orcin.

• Cerino, Cirone, Coiner, coiner, norice, orcein, recoin

From New Latin orcina, from Dutch orseille, from French orseille, from Old French orchel, orseil, from Old Catalan orxella (influenced by dialectal Arabic [script needed] ('urjālla)), from Italian oricello, from Latin ōricilla, diminutive of ōricula (variant of auricula), both diminutives of auris (“ear”)) + illa (a double diminutive suffix) or from auris (“ear”) + culus + illa. The name of the dye was influenced by the visual resemblance of the lichen used in production to a small ear.

orcine f (plural orcines)

1. (organic chemistry) orcin

• “orcine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• "orchil" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.