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Acrolein
noun · 78% connection
A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Adragant
noun · 78% connection
Gum tragacanth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Arabin
noun · 78% connection
Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Arrowroot
noun · 78% connection
A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a simil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Astragalus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Bassorin
noun · 78% connection
A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Blood money
unknown · 78% connection
Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Boracous
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Cespitine
noun · 78% connection
An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Coal tar
unknown · 78% connection
A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Cyanogen
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Dextrin
noun · 78% connection
A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Dextrose
noun · 78% connection
A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Dracanth
noun · 78% connection
A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Erythrite
noun · 78% connection
A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decompos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Eucalyn
noun · 78% connection
An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
Gum
noun · 78% connection
A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: mucilage, obtained, containing, tragacanth.
