Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. animal material
8. [animal material by form or function]
9. [animal material by excretions, secretions, and fluids]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials
4. materials
5. materials by function
6. colorant
7. dye
8. dye by composition or origin
9. natural dye

Anotations

Scope note:

Semi-transparent liquid obtained from the gall bladders of cattle. Used in cleaning, painting, and formerly for medicinal purposes. Contains sodium choleate salts (taurochloate and glycochloate) with some cholesterol, lecithin, and other substances. Examples of use include as a wetting agent in watercolor, in marbling, engraving, lithography, textile dyeing, and as a plasticizer in glue-paste mixtures.