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Arrowroot
noun · 78% connection
white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Betaine
noun · 78% connection
A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
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, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
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, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
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: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Fluorescein
noun · 78% connection
A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Furfurine
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Ginseng
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Glaucine
noun · 78% connection
An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Gomuti
noun · 78% connection
Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Hydroquinone
noun · 78% connection
A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Ipecacuanha
noun · 78% connection
The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (Cephaelis Ipecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself; also, a medici…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Lactide
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Laserwort
noun · 78% connection
Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, of several species (as L. glabrum, and L. siler), the root of which yields a resinou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Lavender
noun · 78% connection
An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. T…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Masterwort
noun · 78% connection
A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Melilotic
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sweet clover or melilot; specifically, designating an acid of the aromatic series, obtained from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.
Nitroprussic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, substance, obtained, indirectly.