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 cy·an·ic acid /saɪˈænɪk-/

 Cy·an·ic a.
 1. Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.
 2. Of or pertaining to a blue color.
 Cyanic acid Chem., an acid, HOCN, derived from cyanogen, well known in its salts, but never isolated in the free state.
 Cyanic colors Bot., those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; -- opposed to xanthic colors. A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class.
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 cyanic acid
      n : a colorless poisonous volatile liquid acid that hydrolyzes
          readily to ammonia and carbon dioxide