"sword-shaped," 1746, from Greek xiphos "a sword," of unknown origin (Klein suggests a Semitic source and compares Hebrew sayif, Arabic sayf) + -oid.
Xerxes
Xhosa
xi
-xion
xiphias
xiphoid
Xmas
X-ray
xylem
xylene
xylo-
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