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Example sentences for "bitter taste"

  • This is known as the bitter boletus, because of a bitter taste of the flesh.

  • The European and American description both ascribe a bitter taste to the flesh of the pileus, and it is regarded as suspicious.

  • Two of them pronounced them bitter, while two did not detect the bitter taste.

  • This oil, in colour, could not be distinguished from water; it has a bitter taste, exhales an odour neither sweet nor the contrary, and is useful both to painters and physicians.

  • The pods, with their pulp, are resinous, of a sharp, bitter taste, and fit neither to be eaten nor drunk.

  • The leaves of the Plantains have a bitter taste, and are somewhat astringent.

  • It has a musky odour, and a bitter taste, being a much esteemed Herbal Simple, but very often spuriously imitated.

  • The little plant has no odour, but possesses a bitter taste, which is rather astringent.

  • Mullein leaves have a weak, sleepy sort of smell, and rather a bitter taste.

  • It is without odour, and has a bitter taste.

  • The flowers grow among the leaves in small, rough, whitish clusters; the seeds are smaller and brownish, of a bitter taste.

  • It is hot and dry in the third degree, of a bitter taste, and somewhat sharp withal; it provokes lust to purpose; I suppose Venus owns it.

  • No, if it is peptonized for only ten minutes, but if it is fully peptonized the milk has a bitter taste.

  • The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

  • It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste.

  • A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic.

  • A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste.

  • The appetite was very poor; she had always a bitter taste in the mouth, and the tongue was thickly coated.

  • It has a powerful odour, which somewhat resembles garlic, and a bitter taste.

  • After maceration, with occasional stirring, for twenty-four hours, place the bark in a displacement apparatus, and percolate with the diluted hydrochloric acid until the solution which drops through is nearly destitute of bitter taste.

  • Olibanum occurs in the form of fragments, which are sometimes pale yellow, and at others of a reddish colour; these fragments have a splintery fracture, a mealy surface, a faintly balsamic odour and a bitter taste.

  • It has no bitter taste, and is soluble in alcohol and ether.

  • It has a dark brown tint, a viscid appearance, an unpleasant smell, and a bitter taste.

  • The saline compounds have a bitter taste, are mostly crystallizable, are soluble in water and alcohol (but not in ether), and give a blue colour to the peroxide salts of iron.

  • It has a reddish-brown colour, a bitter taste, and an odour somewhat resembling that of roasted meat.

  • Elaterin forms delicate, white, silky crystals, having a bitter taste; it is fusible at about 365 deg.

  • A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium.

  • A white or nearly white, odorless or nearly odorless powder with a bitter taste.

  • Colorless crystals or white powder, odorless and having a nauseous, bitter taste.

  • Colorless plates or white powder, odorless, with a saline, bitter taste.

  • The leaves, tops, and seeds, have a bitter taste, with some degree of astringency and aromatic flavour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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