·- A combining form from ·Gr. xanqo``s yellow; as in xanthocobaltic salts. Used also adjectively in chemistry.
Xantho, ūs, f., = Ξανθώ, a sea-nymph , daughter of Nereus and Doris , Verg. G. 4, 336. ...
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