Word Meanings - GENTIANINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.

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• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• BITTERSWEET
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• CRYSTALLIZABLE
  Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• GENTIANINE
  A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• GENTIANACEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the gentian is the type.
• BITTERLY
  In a bitter manner.
• BITTERWOOD
  A West Indian tree from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• GENTIAN
  Any one of a genus of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule. Note: Many species are found on the highest mountains of Europe,
• BITTERISH
  Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.
• BITTERN
  1. The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. 2. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating
• BITTERFUL
  Full of bitterness.
• BITTER
  AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
• BITTER SPAR
  A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
• GENTIANOSE
  A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.
• BITTERNUT
  The swamp hickory . Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.