Safranin

1. n. An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
2. n. An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.
3. n. A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; — called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.