Usually means: Golden river in Greek mythology.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Xanthus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Xanthus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Xanthus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Xanthus: Wordnik
  5. Xanthus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Xanthus: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Xanthus: Dictionary.com
  8. Xanthus (city), Xanthus (disambiguation), Xanthus (historian), Xanthus (mythology), Xanthus (river), Xanthus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Xanthus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Xanthus, Xanthus: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. xanthus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Definitions from Wikipedia (Xanthus)

noun:  Xanthus of Lydia (Xanthos ho Lydos) was a Greek historian, logographer and citizen of Lydia who, during the mid-fifth century BC, wrote texts on the history of Lydia known as Lydiaca, a work which was highly commended by Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
noun:  Xanthus or Xanthos was a town in ancient Lesbos.

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