NOUN
- any one of several hundred compounds having a bitter taste; not admitting of chemical classification
How To Use bitter principle In A Sentence
- During the "steeping" process, so customary in this country, the volatile aroma is lost and a bitter principle extracted. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
- Each of the Horehounds is a labiate plant; and this, the water variety, bears flesh coloured flowers, whilst containing a volatile oil, a resin, a bitter principle, and tannin. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- The chemical constituents of Henbane are "hyoscyamine," a volatile alkaloid, with a bitter principle, "hyoscypricin" (especially just before flowering), also nitrate of potash, which causes the leaves, when burnt, to sparkle with a deflagration, and other inorganic salts. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- The roots of those which are perennial contain, besides fecula, which is their base, a resinous, acrid, and bitter principle. The Book of Household Management
