(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.

(a.) Possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color; as, xanthic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds; xanthogenic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to 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).

(n.) A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.

(n.) One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.

() A combining form from Gr. xanqo`s yellow; as in xanthocobaltic salts. Used also adjectively in chemistry.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride.

(a.) Like a sword; ensiform.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.

(n.) Any one of six metameric phenol derivatives of xylene, obtained as crystalline substances, (CH3)2.C6H3.OH.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid related to mesitylenic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of sodium and carbon dioxide on crude xylenol.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, either one of two distinct acids which are derived from xylic acid and related compounds, and are metameric with uvitic acid.

(n.) Nascent wood; wood cells in a forming state.

(n.) Lignin.