The Collaborative International Dictionary
Xanthic \Xan"thic\, a. [Gr. xanqo`s yellow: cf. F. xanthique.]
Tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors, green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet, orange, etc.
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(Chem.)
Possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color; as, xanthic acid.
Of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds; xanthogenic.
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Of or pertaining to xanthin.
Xanthic acid (Chem.), a heavy, astringent, colorless oil, C2H5O.CS.SH, having a pungent odor. It is produced by leading carbon disulphide into a hot alcoholic solution of potassium hydroxide. So called from the yellow color of many of its salts. Called also xanthogenic acid.
Xanthic colors (Bot.), those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of yellow; -- opposed to cyanic colors. See under Cyanic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"yellowish," 1817, from French xanthique, from Greek xanthos "yellow" (see xantho-).
Wiktionary
a. Of a yellowish colour.
WordNet
Usage examples of "xanthic".
Their abnormal, xanthic, lambent glow might have been some trick of the firelight.
I could still speed up, leaving her to rage at me in a cloud of xanthic dust.
Koscuisko had outfitted himself in primrose-yellow pantaloons whose xanthic hue precisely matched that of his glazed kid gloves.