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picromel
<chemistry> A colourless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.

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.

Origin: Gr. Bitter + honey: cf. F. Picromel.

Source: Websters Dictionary