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  1. picricadjective

    Designating a type of bitter yellow acid.

  2. Etymology: From picrique, from πικρός.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Picricadjective

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

  2. Etymology: [Gr. bitter.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Picric

    pik′rik, 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. [Gr. pikros, bitter.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of picric in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of picric in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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