subacid
IPA: sʌbˈæsʌd
noun
- A mild acidic taste.
- Any substance that is moderately acid.
adjective
- Somewhat acidic.
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Examples of "subacid" in Sentences
- Smooth and pleasant in manner. subacid adj.
- The fruits are usually insipid, occasionally subacid or acid.
- Lansats, two of the most delicious of the subacid tropical fruits.
- The sweet, subacid, mucilaginous juice is much esteemed as a pectoral.
- It's white flesh is subacid and tastes a little similar to lemon sherbet.
- Harvest mandarin oranges when they show color break and their juice turns subacid.
- The inhabitants eat the stalks, which are subacid, and tan leather with the roots, and prepare a black dye from them.
- When arrived at its full growth, and before it is ripe, it is gathered and eaten like any other fruit, the taste being subacid.
- Many baobab-trees grow in different spots, and the few people seen were using the white pulp found between the seeds to make a pleasant subacid drink.
- It would not, perhaps, be correct to say that the Durian is the best of all fruits, because it cannot supply the place of the subacid juicy kinds, such as the orange, grape, mango, and mangosteen, whose refreshing and cooling qualities are so wholesome and grateful; but as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour, it is unsurpassed.
- As to her person, she had a neat oval face, thin and sallow, in expression subacid; a lithe, rather graceful figure, and hands too long, with fingers almost too tapering -- of which hands and fingers she was very careful, contemplating them in secret with a regard amounting almost to reverence: they were her sole witnesses to a descent in which she believed, but of which she had no other shadow of proof.