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Possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color; as, xanthic acid.

Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin. Euxanthic acid (Chem.), a yellow, crystalline, organic acid, extracted from euxanthin.

Persulphocyanic.

Cyanic colors (Bot.), those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; -- opposed to xanthic colors. A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class.

A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).

urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow.

, as in example; and, at the beginning of a word, a simple vocal sound (that of z), as in xanthic. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 217, 270, 271.

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.

The hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic of xanthic acid. [Archaic]

A salt of xanthic acid.

Producing a yellow color or compound; xanthic. See Xanthic acid, under Xanthic.