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. | ||||
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xanthium \xan"thi*um\ (?), n. [nl., fr. gr. xa`nqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the xanthium strumarium, from xanqo`s yellow.] (bot.) a genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.
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xanthium \xan"thi*um\ (?), n. [nl., fr. gr. xa`nqion a plant used for dyeing the hair yellow, said to be the xanthium strumarium, from xanqo`s yellow.] (bot.) a genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.