turacoverdinn.
/ˌtjʊərəkəʊˈvəːdɪn/ Chemistry.
A green colouring-matter occurring in the feathers of some Touracos.
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1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 5 A really green pigment has only been found in the touracos—hence the name turacoverdin.
1893 A. H. Church in Philos. Trans. 1892 (Royal Soc.) A. 183 512 Dr. C. F. W. Krukenberg..has described a green colouring matter obtained from the green feathers of Turacus corythaix, and of other plantain-eaters, by the employment of a 2 per cent, caustic soda-solution as the solvent. He calls this pigment ‘turacoverdin’, and..states that it contains ‘much iron, but no great quantity of copper and manganese’.
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