Picric

[pikrik]

Definition

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.

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Definition

adj. carbazotic.—n. Pic′rāte a salt of picric acid.—adj. Pic′rāted mixed with a picrate as in a composition for a whistling rocket.—ns. Pic′rīte one of the peridotites or olivine-rocks; Picrotox′ine a bitter poisonous principle in the seeds of Cocculus indicus.—Picric acid an acid used as a dye for wool &c.

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