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Decoction

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n. an extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.

n. An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of boiling in water, in order to extract the peculiar properties or virtues.

n. The liquor in which an animal or a vegetable substance has been boiled; water impregnated by boiling with the properties of such a substance: as, a decoction of Peruvian bark.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling

Word Usage

"The explanation rests in the form in which they consume their coffee, namely the decoction, which is free from the sedative principle of the seed, that undoubtedly resides in the aromatic ingredient "cafeol.""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

extraction

Cross Reference

zittmann's decoction

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