xanthin
/'zænθin/
📖 中文释义
- n. 叶黄素
- [医] 植物黄质
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both
- uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally
- found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in
- guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts
- (nitrates).
- n. A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow
- flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.
- n. One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of
- the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.