Mercurochrome

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    merbromin countable, uncountable

    "Then the doctor came bustling in, brown-mustached, blue-tied, spectacled, carrying a tan bag, and behind him followed the two ambulance men, one with a thatch of flaming red hair and the other with a stain of mercurochrome on his jacket-sleeve."

  2. 2
    a mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark wordnet

Etymology

From a trademark.

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