قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية
قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية
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Xanthelasma
(n.)
See Xanthoma.
Xanthian
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Xanthus, an ancient town on Asia
Minor; -- applied especially to certain marbles found near that place,
and now in the British Museum.
Xanthic
(a.)
Tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors,
green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet,
orange, etc.
Xanthic
(a.)
Possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color; as,
xanthic acid.
Xanthic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds;
xanthogenic.
Xanthic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to xanthin.
Xanthide
(n.)
A compound or derivative of xanthogen.
Xanthidia
(pl. )
of Xanthidium
Xanthidium
(n.)
A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids.
These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or
branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found
fossil in flint or hornstone.
Xanthin
(n.)
A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both
uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally
found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in
guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts
(nitrates).
Xanthin
(n.)
A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow
flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.
Xanthin
(n.)
One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of
the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.
Xanthinine
(n.)
A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and
uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms
yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like
quinine.
Xanthium
(n.)
A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the
involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.
A combining form from Gr. xanqo`s yellow; as in
xanthocobaltic salts. Used also adjectively in chemistry.
Xanthocarpous
(a.)
Having yellow fruit.
Xanthochroi
(n. pl.)
A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the
lighter-colored members.
Xanthochroic
(a.)
Having a yellowish or fair complexion; of or
pertaining to the Xanthochroi.
Xanthodontous
(a.)
Having yellow teeth.
Xanthogen
(n.)
The hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic
of xanthic acid.