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ACRID |
Bitter (taste) |
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PICROMEL |
A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet
taste. |
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BITTERWORT |
The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very
bitter taste. |
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ACERB |
Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp
and harsh. |
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MOTHERWORT |
A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste,
used popularly in medicine; lion's tail. |
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PORTER |
A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste,
possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities. |
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HOP |
The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in
brewing to give a bitter taste. |
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SOLANIDINE |
An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine,
as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste. |
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NICOTIANINE |
A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste,
extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor. |
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OLIVIL |
A white crystalline substance, obtained from an exudation
from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties. |
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BITTERSWEET |
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp.
sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful. |
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TAXINE |
A poisonous alkaloid of bitter taste extracted from the
leaves and seeds of the European yew (Taxus baccata). Called also
taxia. |
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LACTUCIN |
A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and
a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of
lactucarium. |
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SMACK |
Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor;
tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used
figuratively. |
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BITTER |
Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of
wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as
aloes. |
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RUE |
A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a
strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in
medicine. |
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SEMINOSE |
A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the
thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup
having a sweetish-bitter taste. |
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GLAUBER'S SALTS |
Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a
white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and
is commonly called "salts." |
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BITTERN |
The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is
concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which
it contains. |
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SNAKEWOOD |
An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina)
having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the
hooded serpent. |
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CONVALLAMARIN |
A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded
as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria
Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet. |
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SWEET |
Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of
sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage;
sweet fruits; sweet oranges. |
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ZEDOARY |
A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having
a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in
medicine as a stimulant. |
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HELENIN |
A neutral organic substance found in the root of the
elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or
oily material, with a slightly bitter taste. |
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NARCEINE |
An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and
extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent
taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia. |