xanthous
英 ['zænθəs]
美['zænθəs]
- adj. 黄色的；黄色人种的
英英释意
- 1. similar to the color of an egg yolk
英文词源
- xanthous (adj.)
- 1829, "fair-haired and light-complexioned," from Greek xanthos "yellow," of unknown origin (see xantho-). But the word also was used in 19c. anthropology as "specifying the yellow or Mongoloid type of mankind" [Century Dictionary].