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Example sentences for "slightly bitter"

  • Defn: A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.

  • It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor.

  • It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts.

  • The common salt of commerce contains small portions of chloride of magnesium, chloride of calcium, and sulphate of calcium; and hence has commonly a slightly bitter taste, and deliquesces in the air.

  • The above preparation resembles ordinary cod-liver oil, except in having a pale yellowish colour and a slightly bitter taste, similar to that of cinchona bark.

  • White powder, becoming greenish on exposure to light and air, odorless and with a slightly bitter taste.

  • A white, odorless powder, with a slightly bitter taste.

  • The trunk bark is slightly bitter, and in decoction is used as a diuretic.

  • The essence extracted from the rind is yellow, fragrant, slightly bitter; density, 0.


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