Meaning & use
Xanthous
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Having a yellow or yellowish color.
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The botanist noted the plant's unusually xanthous leaves.
Old anthropological texts sometimes used 'xanthous' to describe a yellowish hair or skin tone, a usage now considered dated.
A note on using this word
From Greek 'xanthos' (yellow); once used in 19th-century racial classification, a usage now considered outdated, though the word survives in botany and zoology to describe yellow coloring.
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