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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr.

ξανθόσ

yellow.]

Yellow; specifically

(Ethnol.)

, of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.

xanthous ‎(not comparable)

Yellow-brown; yolk-colored.
- 1983, Dorothea Liebermann-Meffert, et al., The Greater Omentum, page 131
  Absorbent fatty xanthous histiocytes and xanthous granulations are observed in the marginal area of necrosis of the fatty tissue...
(archaic, ethnology) Pertaining to people with yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.
- 1841, James Cowles Prichard et al., Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, page 227
  The xanthous variety springs up out of every black-haired race.

yellow-brown