xanthous
英 ['z?nθ?s]
美['z?nθ?s]
- adj. 黃色的；黃色人種的
英文詞源
- 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].
