picromel

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek, meaning "bitter honey".

Noun

picromel (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) A colourless viscous substance having a bittersweet taste, formerly supposed to be the essential principle of bile, but later identified as a mixture, principally of salts of glycocholic acid and taurocholic acid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “picromel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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