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XANTHIN

Definition: XANTHIN

XANTHIN

Noun

1. 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).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: XANTHIN

English words defined with "XANTHIN": CarninExtractiveHypoxanthinParaxanthinXanthic. (references)
Etymologies containing "XANTHIN": Paraxanthin. (references)

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Modern Translation: XANTHIN

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

   

Spanish

  

xantina. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: XANTHIN

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).

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Anagrams: XANTHIN

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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