Crossword clues for cyanic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyanic \Cy*an"ic\ (s?-?n"?k), a. [Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance: cf. F. cyanique. Cf. Kyanite.]
Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.
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Of or pertaining to a blue color.
Cyanic acid (Chem.), an acid, HOCN, derived from cyanogen, well known in its salts, but never isolated in the free state.
Cyanic colors (Bot.), those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; -- opposed to xanthic colors. A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chemistry English) Of cyanogen or its derivatives. 2 azure blue.
WordNet
Usage examples of "cyanic".
One inevitably found Angier, and instantly wrapped itself around him, seeming to illumine him with cyanic light that glowed not only around his body but also from within.
Half a dozen tentacles instantly wound themselves around him and the boy, imbuing them both with the lethal cyanic glow.
The wind moans like a dying child, and even the weak sunlight that passes into the great hall is drained of life and hope by the cyanic stained glass through which it is filtered.
The dark tiers of the prison walls ran forever down the deep cyanic sky.
The bay doors were currently open, the faint blue glow of the force field that kept the atmosphere in lending an eerie cyanic glow to the parked vehicles.
Below, jacarandas reached crooked fingers skyward, their cyanic glory now vanished.
The chest had been abandoned among others in a dim storeroom, but the door of the room was ajar, admitting a streak of cyanic light.
Liquefied varieties of cyanic were quick, and there were other preparations.
Someone picked the lock of my door, and dropped a bottle of cyanic when he ran away.
More plants bloomed as the spring months passed, first early ones like promise-of-spring and snow liverwort, then later ones such as phlox and heather, then saxifrage and Tibetan rhubarb, moss campion and alpine nailwort, cornflowers and edelweiss, on and on until every patch of green carpet in the rocky palm of the basin was touched with brilliant dots of cyanic blue, dark pink, yellow, white, each color waving in a layer at the characteristic height of the plant holding it, all of them glowing in the dusk like drips of light, welling out into the world from nowhere—a pointillist Mars, the ribbiness of the seamed basin etched in the air by this scree of color.
More plants bloomed as the spring months passed, first early ones like promise-of-spring and snow liverwort, then later ones such as phlox and heather, then saxifrage and Tibetan rhubarb, moss campion and alpine nailwort, cornflowers and edelweiss, on and on until every patch of green carpet in the rocky palm of the basin was touched with brilliant dots of cyanic blue, dark pink, yellow, white, each color waving in a layer at the characteristic height of the plant holding it, all of them glowing in the dusk like drips of light, welling out into the world from nowhere-a pointillist Mars, the ribbiness of the seamed basin etched in the air by this scree of color.
I gestured at our netted gems, glinting bitterly like captured beasts' eyes, their otherworldly lusters biting through Behemoth's cyanic hue, and at our bales of infernal artifacts, bulging and jutting against their shroudings like the little bundled corpses of alien monsters.