aloes
bitter aloes | a purgative made from the leaves of aloe |
| bitter end | (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt |
bitterness
bitter | the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste |
bitter
bitterness | the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth |
bitter chocolate
baking chocolate
cooking chocolate | pure unsweetened chocolate used in baking and icings and sauces and candy |
bitter orange
Seville orange
sour orange | highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade |
| bitter | English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) |
| bitter lemon | tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink |
bittercress
bitter cress | any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers, cosmopolitan except Antarctic |
marsh pink
rose pink
bitter floom
American centaury
Sabbatia stellaris
Sabbatia Angularis | any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury |
water hickory
bitter pecan
water bitternut
Carya aquatica | hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts |
bitternut
bitternut hickory
bitter hickory
bitter pignut
swamp hickory
Carya cordiformis | hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with or leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts |
| bitter pea | any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Daviesia having yellow flowers and triangular seeds, Australia |
bitter betch
Vicia orobus | European perennial toxic vetch |
bitter dock
broad-leaved dock
yellow dock
Rumex obtusifolius | European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America |
bitter almond
Prunus dulcis amara
Amygdalus communis amara | almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes |
| bitter almond oil | pale yellow essential oil obtained from bitter almonds by distillation from almond cake or meal |
fever tree Georgia bark
bitter-bark
Pinckneya pubens | ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever |
sour orange
Seville orange
bitter orange
bitter orange tree
bigarade
marmalade orange
Citrus aurantium | any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit, used as grafting stock |
bitter cassava
manioc
mandioc
mandioca
tapioca plant
gari
Manihot esculenta
Manihot utilissima | cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems, used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca |
| bitter end | the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be), he was determined to fight to the bitter end |
| dolomite bitter spar | a light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate, a source of magnesium, used as a ceramic and as fertilizer |
| bitter principle | any one of several hundred compounds having a bitter taste, not admitting of chemical classification |
Epsom salts
bitter salts | hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures |
| bitter | make bitter |
acrimonious
bitter | marked by strong resentment or cynicism, an acrimonious dispute, bitter about the divorce |
| bitter | proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity, a bitter struggle, bitter enemies |
| bitter | expressive of severe grief or regret, shed bitter tears |
biting
bitter | causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation, used especially of cold, bitter cold, a biting wind |
b acerb
acerbic
acid
acrid
bitter
blistering
caustic
sulfurous
sulphurous
virulent
vitriolic ba | harsh or corrosive in tone, an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose, a barrage of acid comments, her acrid remarks make her many enemies, bitter words, blistering criticism, caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics, a sulfurous denunciation, a vitriolic critique |
| bitter | causing a sharp and acrid taste experience,quinine is bitter |
| bitter | very difficult to accept or bear, the bitter truth, a bitter sorrow |
| slightly somewhat more or less | to a small degree or extent, his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory, the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other |
piercingly
bitterly bitingly
bitter | extremely and sharply, it was bitterly cold, bitter cold |
slenderly
slimly
slightly | in a slim or slender manner, a slenderly built woman, slightly built |