Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending toward a yellow color; of or relating to xanthin; yellow, referring to the color of the urine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors, green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet, orange, etc.
- adjective Possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color.
- adjective Of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds; xanthogenic.
- adjective Of or pertaining to xanthin.
- adjective (Chem.) a heavy, astringent, colorless oil, C2H5O.CS.SH, having a pungent odor. It is produced by leading carbon disulphide into a hot alcoholic solution of potassium hydroxide. So called from the yellow color of many of its salts. Called also
xanthogenic acid . - adjective (Bot.) those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of yellow; -- opposed to
cyanic colors . See underCyanic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a yellowish colour.
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Examples
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As in scarily blonde, yellow, xanthic hair, Rapunzel-gold and terrifying.
Archive 2004-07-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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As in scarily blonde, yellow, xanthic hair, Rapunzel-gold and terrifying.
hair today Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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On this day, it was ornamental designs engraved on tombstones, xanthic blooms of Magnolia trees, the flight of birds observed from the car, and now nests under a bridge.
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'fixing' -- i.e. decomposing the xanthic residue -- consists in a short exposure to the boiling saline solution.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
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• what's wrong: five pounds xanthic: in the little white box
Ivy is here 2009
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