[mass noun](Chemistry)a colourless oily liquid present in coal tar. It is used in the manufacture of dyes, drugs, and plastics, and was the basis of the earliest synthetic dyes (化)阿尼林,苯胺,生色精
Chem. formula: C6H5NH2 化學(xué)分子式:C6H5NH2
語(yǔ)源
mid 19th cent.: from anil 'indigo' (from which it was originally obtained), via French and Portuguese from Arabic an-nīl (from Sanskrit nīlī, from nīla 'dark blue')