Xanthochroic: Definition and part of speech

Xanthochroic

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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.

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

n. An amido derivative of xanthic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, C2H5O.CS.NH2; — called also xanthogen amide.

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.