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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Cyanic \Cy*an"ic\ (s?-?n"?k), a. [Gr. ky`anos a dark blue
     substance: cf. F. cyanique. Cf. {Kyanite}.]
     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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