Definition of Xanthic

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yellow, yellowish in color
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(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 xanthin.
  
(a.)
Of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds; xanthogenic.
  
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xanthic
acid n : any of a class of unstable organic acids containing sulphur
xanthic
acid (chem.), a heavy, astringent, colorless oil, c2h5o.cs.sh , having a pungent odor. it is produced by leading carbon disulphide into a hot alcoholic solution of potassium hydroxide. so called from the yellow color of many of its salts. called also xanthogenic acid...
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