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picromel
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picromel, n. [Gr. bitter + honey: cf. F. picromel.].
A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste. [1913 Webster]
" It was formerly supposed to be the essential principle of the bile, but is now known to be a mixture, principally of salts of glycocholic and taurocholic acids."
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