astringent 的 2 个定义
- Medicine/Medical. contracting; constrictive; styptic.
- harshly biting; caustic: his astringent criticism.
- stern or severe; austere.
- sharply incisive; pungent: astringent wit.
- Medicine/Medical. a substance that contracts the tissues or canals of the body, thereby diminishing discharges, as of mucus or blood.
- a cosmetic that cleans the skin and constricts the pores.
astringent 近义词
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更多astringent例句
- While fuyus can be eaten raw and crunchy, hachiyas are mouth-puckeringly astringent until they’re very ripe.
- If you taste one before it is ripe, the fruit’s sour and astringent qualities will flood your taste buds with a horrible cottony sensation.
- These protagonists want something just out of reach, and end up being the unintentional authors of their own astringent tragedies.
- And yet, there was always an astringent, bleakly humorous honesty to the man.
- The extreme sharpness of the air acted on his nerves like an astringent, and braced them swiftly.
- I was unable to locate any of the ordinary astringent drugs, such as kino, krameria, or nutgall.
- This fruit is very astringent and bitter, and on being cut, a juice flows from it which is at first yellow, but soon turns black.
- It is powerfully styptic and astringent; and is used chiefly as an external application in cancer.
- Its roots, of a deep red hue, are distinguished by a bitter taste and astringent properties.