tinction

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noun

A stain; a preparation for staining.

OriginLatin tinctiō →
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Meanings

nountinction (plural tinctions)

plural tinctions

  1. A stain; a preparation for staining.

    […] not color as well as at others, even when fresh covering-glass specimens are made and exactly the same tinctions used.

    1888, Frank Seaver Billings, Swine plague, page 108

Origin

  1. Latintinctiō“a soaking, dipping”
  2. Englishtinction

Borrowed from Latin tinctiō (“a soaking, dipping”).

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