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Words related to astringent

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  • acid

    An acid is a chemical substance, usually a liquid, which contains hydrogen and can react with other substances to form salts. Some acids burn or dissolve other substances that they come into contact with.

  • statice

    any of various plants belonging to the genus Limonium, of the leadwort family, having clusters of variously colored flowers that retain their color when dried.

  • tannin

    Chemistry. any of a group of astringent vegetable principles or compounds, chiefly complex glucosides of catechol and pyrogallol, as the reddish compound that gives the tanning properties to oak bark or the whitish compound that occurs in large quantities in nutgalls (common tannin, tannic acid)

  • acerbic

    sour in taste

  • aftershave

    Aftershave is a liquid with a pleasant smell that men sometimes put on their faces after shaving.

  • aleppo gall

    a type of nutgall occurring in oaks in W Asia and E Europe
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