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picon

picon noun: a caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.

Noun

picon (countable and uncountable, plural picons)

  1. A caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.

Proper noun capitalized: Picon

Picon (plural Picons)

  1. A surname.

Forms of picon

Noun
pluralpicons
Proper noun
pluralPicons

Origin of picon

Borrowed from French picon, named after inventor Gaétan Picon (1809–1882).

Questions about picon

What does picon mean?
Picon means a caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.
What part of speech is picon?
Picon can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of picon?
The plural of picon is picons.

Words near picon in the dictionary

  1. picomol
  2. picomolar
  3. picomole
  4. picomoles
  5. picomols
  6. picon
  7. piconavirus
  8. Picone
  9. Picones
  10. piconet
  11. piconets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: picon (page history and authors); Picon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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