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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, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Casein
noun · 78% connection
A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and const…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Cholesterin
noun · 78% connection
A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Cinchonidine
noun · 78% connection
One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
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, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
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: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Flesh
noun · 78% connection
The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the musc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Galactin
noun · 78% connection
An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Gelatine
noun · 78% connection
Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous coll…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Glycocoll
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Glycogen
noun · 78% connection
A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the live…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Helenin
noun · 78% connection
A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily materia…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Helleborin
noun · 78% connection
A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling tast…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Hydrodynamics
noun · 78% connection
That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Hyoscyamine
noun · 78% connection
An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Indican
noun · 78% connection
An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglauci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Leucin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.
Ligustrin
noun · 78% connection
A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, sweet, taste.