Word.ws English Dictionary

xanthopicrite

xanthopicrite noun: a bitter crystalline alkaloid extracted from plants of family Xanthoxylaceae.

Noun

xanthopicrite (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A bitter crystalline alkaloid extracted from plants of family Xanthoxylaceae.

Origin of xanthopicrite

From xantho- + picrite.

Questions about xanthopicrite

What does xanthopicrite mean?
Xanthopicrite means a bitter crystalline alkaloid extracted from plants of family Xanthoxylaceae.
What part of speech is xanthopicrite?
Xanthopicrite is a noun.

Words near xanthopicrite in the dictionary

  1. xanthophyte
  2. xanthophytes
  3. xanthopia
  4. xanthopicrin
  5. xanthopicrine
  6. xanthopicrite
  7. xanthoplanine
  8. xanthoproteate
  9. xanthoproteates
  10. xanthoproteic
  11. xanthoproteic acid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: xanthopicrite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “xanthopicrite.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/xanthopicrite. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.