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Amygdalin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Anemonic
adjective · 78% connection
An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Anemonin
noun · 78% connection
An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Asparagine
noun · 78% connection
A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Atropine
noun · 78% connection
A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Bittersweet
adjective · 78% connection
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Caffeine
noun · 78% connection
A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with gu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Calumbin
noun · 78% connection
A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Carotin
noun · 78% connection
A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Cetrarin
noun · 78% connection
A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cet…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Colchicine
noun · 78% connection
A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Colocynth
noun · 78% connection
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Convallamarin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Daphnin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Elater
noun · 78% connection
The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica E…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Emetine
noun · 78% connection
A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Ergotine
unknown · 78% connection
A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
Gentianine
noun · 78% connection
A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystallizable, bitter, substance, extracted.
