chromogenic

[ kroh-muh-jen-ik ]

/ ˌkroʊ məˈdʒɛn ɪk /

producing color.

Chemistry. pertaining to chromogen or a chromogen.

(of bacteria) producing some characteristic color or pigment that is useful as a means of identification.

Origin of chromogenic

First recorded in 1880–85; chromo- + -genic

Two or three chromogenic forms producing still other colors have occasionally been found in milk.

Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition |H. L. Russell
The cause of the difficulty has been traced by Connell to the development of a chromogenic bacterium, Bacillus rudensis.

Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition |H. L. Russell
It also acts as a chromogenic centre when double bonds or ethylenic linkages are present, as in fluorene ketone or fluorenone.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 |Various
No means are known by which these coloured spots, due to the growth of chromogenic organisms, can be removed from the rubber.

The Preparation of Plantation Rubber |Sidney Morgan

chromogenic

/ (ˌkrəʊməˈdʒɛnɪk) /

producing colour

of or relating to a chromogen

photog involving the use of chromogens rather than silver halide during processing to produce the image chromogenic film

chromogenic

[ krō′mə-jĕn′ĭk ]

Of or relating to a chromogen or to chromogenesis.