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Found: 126 words.
An amido derivative of xanthic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, C2H5O.CS.NH2; -- called also xanthogen amide.
A salt of xanthic; a xanthogenate.
See Xanthoma.
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
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Of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds; xanthogenic.
A compound or derivative of xanthogen.
of Xanthidium
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...
Xanthin
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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 a...
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 fluores...
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.
Having yellow fruit.
A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the lighter-colored members.
Having a yellowish or fair complexion; of or pertaining to the Xanthochroi.
Having yellow teeth.
Xanthogen
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Persulphocyanogen.
A salt of xanthic acid.
Producing a yellow color or compound; xanthic. See Xanthic acid, under Xanthic.
A skin disease marked by the development or irregular yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids; -- called also xanthelasma.
The yellow pigment present in the inner segments of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.
A yellow coloring matter found in yellow autumn leaves, and also produced artificially from chlorophyll; -- formerly called also phylloxanthin.
Having a yellow stipe, or stem.
Pertaining to, or derived from, xanthoprotein; showing the characters of xanthoprotein; as, xanthoproteic acid; the xanthoproteic reaction for albumin.
A yellow acid substance formed by the action of hot nitric acid on albuminous or proteid matter. It is changed to a deep orange-yellow color by the addition of ammonia.
One of three alkaloids found in the root of the yellow puccoon (Hydrastis Canadensis). It is a yellow crystalline substance, and resembles berberine.
A glucoside extracted from Persian berries as a yellow crystalline powder, used as a dyestuff.
A genus of shrubby ranunculaceous plants of North America, including only the species Xanthorhiza apiifolia, which has roots of a deep yellow color; yellowroot. The bark is intense...
A genus of endogenous plants, native to Australia, having a thick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves. See Grass tree.
An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.
The yellow discoloration often observed in cancerous tumors.
Having yellow seeds.
Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.
A liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted from the seeds of a Japanese prickly ash (Xanthoxylum pipertium) as an aromatic oil.
A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.
A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs...
An Arctic fork-tailed gull (Xema Sabinii).
A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.
of Xenium
A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.
Xenodochium
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A house for the reception of strangers.
Reception of strangers; hospitality.
Cross fertilization.
Xenogenesis
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Same as Heterogenesis.
Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes.
A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc.
A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.
A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of sc...
A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.
A cabassou.