xantho-

1. a combining form meaning “yellow,” used in the formation of compound words:

   xanthophyll.

xantho-

combining_form

1. indicating yellow

   xanthophyll

Word History and Origins

Origin of xantho-¹

Combining form of Greek xanthós yellow

Word History and Origins

Origin of xantho-¹

from Greek xanthos yellow

Example Sentences

The original reads, Arutoqi Xantho chinsui xite yraruru tocoroye, fitoga qite daicaino vxiuouo fitocuchino nomi t�ucusaruru michiga arǒcato t�ni,...

From Project Gutenberg

On one occasion, a cheap trip by the steamer "Xantho" from Anstruther to Leith being advertised, many of the labouring classes, with their friends, arranged to visit Leith and Edinburgh.

From Project Gutenberg

But that cry, Even from her chamber in the river-deeps, His mother heard: around her spun the nymphs Milesian wool stained through with hyaline dye, Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce, Their glossy locks o'er snowy shoulders shed, Cydippe and Lycorias yellow-haired, A maiden one, one newly learned even then To bear Lucina's birth-pang.

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