"cyanogen" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /sajˈæn.ə.d͡ʒɪn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cyanogen.wav Forms: cyanogens [plural]
Etymology: From cyano- + -gen; compare French cyanogène. So called because it produced blue dyes. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|cyano|gen}} cyano- + -gen, {{cog|fr|cyanogène}} French cyanogène Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cyanogen (countable and uncountable, plural cyanogens)
  1. (organic chemistry) The pseudohalogen (CN)₂; a colorless, poisonous gas used as a rocket propellant, an insecticide and in chemical warfare. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: ethanedinitrile, oxalonitrile, dicyanogen, nitriloacetonitrile
    Sense id: en-cyanogen-en-noun-fflpwnWT Categories (other): Organic compounds, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with cyano-, English terms suffixed with -gen, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with cyano-: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -gen: 49 51 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 64 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 46 54 Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
  2. (inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry) The radical -CN. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (organic compound): cianogen [masculine] (Catalan), (qíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 氰气 (qíngqì) (Chinese Mandarin), cyanogeen (Dutch), cyaan (Dutch), ciano (Esperanto), disyaani (Finnish), syaani (Finnish), cyane [masculine] (French), Cyan (German), Zyan (German), Cyanogen [neuter] (German), Dicyan (German) Translations (radical): cyaan (Dutch), syaani (Finnish), Cyan (German), Zyan (German)
    Sense id: en-cyanogen-en-noun-M-BPbIq8 Categories (other): Inorganic compounds, Organic compounds, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with cyano-, English terms suffixed with -gen, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Poisons, Rocketry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with cyano-: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -gen: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 46 54 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 43 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Poisons: 44 56 Disambiguation of Rocketry: 43 57 Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'organic compound': 36 64 Disambiguation of 'radical': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bromocyan, bromocyanogen, cyanogen bromide, cyanogen chloride, ferricyanogen, ferrocyanogen, hexacyanogen, paracyanogen

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (a681f8a and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.