Adjective:

सिकोड़नेवाली, स्तम्मक,

astringent's Usage Examples:

Their soluble salts combine with albumen and preserve it, strong solutions being extremely irritant or caustic, while weaker ones are astringent simply, or even soothing.

The underground woody stem is astringent and yields a yellow dye.

The fruit-stalk is very short, bearing a subglobose fruit an inch or rather more in diameter, of an orange-yellow colour, and with a sweetish astringent pulp. It is surrounded at the base by the persistent calyxlobes, which increase in size as the fruit ripens.

The bark is astringent; it is used for tanning and dyeing.

Soluble salts of manganese, aluminium, zinc, copper, gold, platinum and bismuth have, when given by the mouth, little action beyond their local astringent or irritating effects; but when injected into a blood vessel they all exert much the same depressing effect upon the heart and nervous system.

The leaves and husk of the fruit are resinous and astringent, and are sometimes used medicinally as well as for dyeing purposes.

Calcium salts form insoluble soaps with fats, and combine with albumen in a manner which makes them soothing and astringent rather than irritating.

It has a sweet astringent taste, very soluble in water, but scarcely soluble in alcohol.

Iron in the intestine causes an astringent or constipating effect.

The physical properties of the powder also give it a mild astringent action.

Synonyms:

sour, acerbic, acerb,

Antonyms:

tasteless, unsoured, pleasant, sweet,