xan tho be tac

[Pref. xantho-; Mod. Latin beta beet-root, and Eng. suff. ic.] Derived from or contained in beet, and having a yellow color. xanthobetic-acid, s. Chem.: An acid extracted from the root of Beta vulgar is by cold alcohol. It is a reddish-yellow ma , very hygroscopic, has a sour taste, is soluble in water and alcohol, slightly soluble in ether. txăn-tho-car-pous, a. [Pref, xantho-; Greek karpos fruit, and Eng. suff.- ous.] Bot.: Having yellow fruit. xăn-tho-chrō-1, s . pl . [Gr. xanthochroos =with yellow skin; pref. zantho- , and Gr. chros =the skin.] Anthrop.: Fair Whites. The name Huxley to a population, in early times extending from Western and Central Asia into Eastern and Central Europe, and distinguished by yellow or red hair, blue eyes and fair complexion. The farthermost limit of the Xanthochroi northward is Iceland and the British Isles; southwestward they are traceable at intervals through the Berber country, and end in the Canary Islands. xăn thổ chrō'-Ic, a . [Mod. Latin zanthochroi (q. v.); Eng. suff. ic .] Having a fair skin; of or belonging to the Xanthochroi (q. v.). "If any one should think fit to a ume that in the year 100 B. C. there was one continuous Xanthochroic population from the Rhine to the Yenesei, and from the Ural mountains to the Hindoo Koosh, I know not that any evidence exists by which that position could be upset, while the existing state of things is rather in its favor than otherwise."-Huxley: Critiques , p. 150. xăn thổ chy-mus, s . [Pref. xantho- , and Greek chymos juice, liquid. So named from the yellow juice exuding from their trunks.] Botany : A genus of Garciniese (q.v.). Trees with thick, opposite leaves; five sepals; five petals; five bundles of stamens, alternating with five large glands; a five-celled ovary; a fruit with five or fewer cells. Known species three, from tropical Asia. Xanthochymus pictorius ( = Garcinia xantho chymus) in the mountains of Southern India. It has a bright yellow, pleasant-tasted fruit of about the size of an apricot. The juice of the tree furnishes an inferior kind of gamboge. xăn thô-cône, xăn-thoc-o-nite, subst . [Pref. xantho, and Gr. kon is =powder; Ger, xanthokon .] Min .: A very rare mineral occurring only in small crystals and reniform groups a ociated with steph anite, proustite, . Crystallization, rhombohe dral. Hardne , 2.0; specific gravity, 5.0-5-2; color, dull red, clove-brown, orange-yellow; brittle. Composition: Sulphur, 21'1; arsenic, 14.9; silver, 64-0= 100, whence the formula (3AgS+AS2S5)+2(3AgSt AS2S3).