turacinn.
/ˈtjʊərəsɪn/ Chemistry.
A crimson animal pigment, found by Professor A. H. Church in the wing-feathers of about 26 species of birds of the genera Turacus, Gallirex, and Musophaga, confined to the Æthiopic region of Central Africa; closely allied to hæmoglobin, but free from iron, and containing over 7 per cent. of copper.
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1868 A. H. Church in Student & Intellectual Observer I. 161 Turacine, a new animal pigment containing copper.
1869 A. H. Church in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 159 627 Researches on Turacin.
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 5 Another red [pigment], turacin, causes the magnificent red on the wings of the Musophagidæ.
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