safranine

Definition of Safranine in English :

1. saffranine, safranin, safranine

any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Safranine

noun

any of a class of azine dyes, used for textiles and biological stains

noun

1.

a yellowish-red aniline dye, C18H15N4Cl, or any of several dyes closely related in structure to this

2.

any mixture of the various salts of the safranine dyes, used as a dye and as a stain in microscopy

n.

Any of a family of dyes based on phenazine, used chiefly as biological stains.