A cyan-colored chemical compound related to hermidin alkaloids, found in certain plants and used in alkaloid research.
From cyano- (Greek kyanos 'dark blue') + hermidin (a plant alkaloid). This specialized botanical-chemistry term emerged from 19th-century plant alkaloid classification.
Plants make dozens of alkaloids that defend them from insects and diseases—cyanohermidin is one of nature's blue-colored chemical weapons that scientists have learned to isolate and study.
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