Used as comb. form of L. flāv-us yellow, indicating the presence of a yellow tint.
1. Bot. and Entom. (Prefixed to other adjs.)
1816. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), II. xix. 125, note. The abdomen is covered with longish flavo-pallid hairs: the first segment is short with longer hairs; the base of the three intermediate segments is covered, and as it were banded, with pale hairs.
1847. J. Hardy, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. No. 5. 257. Legs dilute flavo-testaceous.
1871. W. A. Leighton, Lichen-Flora, 38. Thallus crustaceous or obsolete, yellow or flavo-virescent or cinerascent or whitish.
2. Chem. Used in the names of various compounds; as flavo-cobalt (whence flavo-cobaltic), flavo-phenin, flavo-purpurin.
1879. Watts, Dict. Chem., 3rd Suppl., I. 111. Flavopurpurin is easily soluble in alcohol, and crystallises therefrom in golden-yellow needles. Ibid., 544. The so-called flavocobalt.
1889. Roscoe & Schorlemmer, Chem., II. II. 139. The Flavo-cobaltic Salts may be considered as roseo-cobalt compounds in which two-thirds of the acid radical is replaced by nitroxyl.
