WordNet
n. almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes [syn: Prunus dulcis amara, Amygdalus communis amara]
Usage examples of "bitter almond".
Had the guard been able to get the typical bitter almond smell, this, of course, would have put the tentative diagnosis beyond reasonable doubt.
Sweet Almonds alone are employed in making emulsions, as the Bitter Almond imparts its peculiar taste when treated in this way.
A flash of red shot through the sensorium, along with the smell of bitter almond, a prickle of static electricity, the taste of kimchi.
An hour later the telltale bitter almond smell of prussic acid was gone, the muscles of the corpse relaxed again.
Eddings' blood reeked of a bitter almond smell, and it did not surprise me that neither Roche nor Danny could detect it.