Usually means: Precursor to indigo in plants.
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  1. indican: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. indican: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indican: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indican: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Indican, indican: Wordnik
  6. indican: Wiktionary
  7. indican: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. indican: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. indican: Dictionary.com
  10. Indican: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Indican: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. indican: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Indican: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. indican: Free Dictionary
  15. indican: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (indican)

noun:  (organic chemistry) A glucoside obtained from woad and other plants, the source of natural indigo.
noun:  (organic chemistry) An indigo-forming substance found in urine and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin); an indoxyl sulphate of potash.

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