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Definition: XANTHIN |
XANTHINNoun1. One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide. 2. A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder. 3. 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). |
Crosswords: XANTHIN |
| English words defined with "XANTHIN": Carnin ♦ Extractive ♦ Hypoxanthin ♦ Paraxanthin ♦ Xanthic. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "XANTHIN": Paraxanthin. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "XANTHIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | xantin, xanthin. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | xanthine. (various references) | ||||||||||
Farsi | ماده رنگی روناس وگل زرد, گزانتین . (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | ksantiini, 2,6-dioksipuriini. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | xanthine. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Xanthin. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ξανθίνη (xanthine). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | xantina. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | anthinxay xantina. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "XANTHIN": xanthine, xanthines, xanthins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "XANTHIN": canthaxanthin, fucoxanthin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "XANTHIN": canthaxanthins, fucoxanthins, hypoxanthine, hypoxanthines, methylxanthine, methylxanthines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-n-n-t-x" | |
-2 letters: ninth. | |
-3 letters: anti, hant, hint, tain, taxi, than, thin. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, hat, hin, hit, inn, nah, nan, nit, nix, nth, tan, tax, tin. | |
-5 letters: ah, ai, an, at, ax, ha, hi, in, it, na, ta, ti, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-n-n-t-x" | |
+1 letter: xanthein, xanthine, xanthins. | |
+2 letters: xantheins, xanthines. | |
+4 letters: fucoxanthin. | |
+5 letters: fucoxanthins, hypoxanthine. | |
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