bilirubin
‘a reddish-yellow bile pigment’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
M.E. acassia, acatia, accacee < G. bilirubin < bili- ‘bile’ + Lat. ruber ‘red’ + -ine < roo < reudh- < Tamil ar
bilirubin
English words derived from Tamil ar connoting ‘red’