bitter principle

1. 1.

   any one of several hundred compounds having a bitter taste; not admitting of chemical classification

   Broadercompound

Questions about bitter principle

What does bitter principle mean?

bitter principle means "any one of several hundred compounds having a bitter taste; not admitting of chemical classification".

Is bitter principle a common word?

bitter principle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.