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xanthous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective xanthous has 1 sense
- xanthous(s = adj.all) yellow, yellowish - of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
xanthous, a. [Gr. xanqo`s yellow.].
Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.) , of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
xanthous
Yellowness
N yellowness, yellow, or, gamboge, cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow, orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin, xanthein, xanthin, zaofulvin, crocus, saffron, topaz, xanthite, yolk, jaundice, London fog, yellowness, icterus, xantho- cyanopia, xanthopsia, yellow, aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow, fulvous, fulvid, sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy, xanthic, xanthous, jaundiced, auricomous, gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose- colored, creamcolored, xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous, yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot, warm, advancing.
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