Bitterish: alternatives and connections

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.

Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.

An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum).

An active principle of Arnica montana. It is a bitter resin.

A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.

The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are…

A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort.

An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.

An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected b…