Picromel

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Picromel \Pic"ro*mel\, n. [Gr. ? bitter + ? honey: cf. F.
     picromel.] (Old Chem.)
     A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.
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     Note: 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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