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Felonwort :: Felonwort (n.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.

Bitterling :: Bitterling (n.) A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).

Olivin :: Olivin (n.) A complex bitter gum, found on the leaves of the olive tree; -- called also olivite..

Assamar :: Assamar (n.) The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown..

Caffeine :: Caffeine (n.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana..

Colchicine :: Colchicine (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia..

Glaucine :: Glaucine (n.) An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance..

Taunt :: Taunt (n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.

Envenom :: Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter..

Polygala :: Polygala (n.) A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort..

Lactucin :: Lactucin (n.) A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium..

Boom :: Boom (n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming..

Ericolin :: Ericolin (n.) A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceae), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass..

Lupulin :: Lupulin (n.) A bitter principle extracted from hops.

Zedoary :: Zedoary (n.) A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in medicine as a stimulant..

Saccharin :: Saccharin (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

Colocynth :: Colocynth (n.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd..

Bitterwood :: Bitterwood (n.) A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

Impoison :: Impoison (v. t.) To poison; to imbitter; to impair.

Solanine :: Solanine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina..

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