Tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors, green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet, orange, etc. Of or pertaining to xanthin. A compound or derivative of xanthogen. 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.
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. One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide. Used also adjectively in chemistry. Having yellow fruit.