Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bitter-sweet substance obtained from bile.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Old Chem.) A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.

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  • noun 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.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek, meaning "bitter honey".

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