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Cyanine vs Cygnine - What's the difference?

cyanine | cygnine |


As nouns the difference between cyanine and cygnine

is that cyanine is any of a family of synthetic blue dyes used in photography etc while cygnine is an alkaloid from plants of genus genus: Gastrolobium, found in Australia, principally Western Australia, highly toxic to introduced animals.

As an adjective cygnine is

being of the genus Cygnus (swan), within subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae, though sometimes considered a distinct subfamily, subfamily: Cygninae.