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Definition of Subacid
1. Adjective. Slightly sour to the taste.
Definition of Subacid
1. a. Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices.
Definition of Subacid
1. Adjective. Somewhat acidic. ¹
2. Noun. Any substance that is moderately acid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subacid
1. slightly sour [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subacid
Literary usage of Subacid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"Fruit of good size, fair, well colored, largely striped and splashed with red,
pleasant subacid, excellent for dessert or culinary use. ..."
2. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1808)
"... of superacid and subacid salts, I thought it not unlikely, that this law might
obtain generally in such compounds, and it was my design to have pursued ..."
3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"... whose fibres cross each other obliquely, resembling the coats of a bladder;
hence the- former are more readily pervaded and divided with subacid liquors ..."
4. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"Acide; Acidulous Salts; Tamarinds, and other subacid fruits; Lime- water ; Chloride
of Calcium; Magnesia; Nitrate of Silver; Acetate and Diacetate of ..."
5. Pomologia Britannica: Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Most Important ...by John Lindley by John Lindley (1841)
"... as white as that of a Blanquet Pear when fully ripe. FLESH whitish, firm,
crisp, very juicy, with a most agreeable, lively, sweetish, subacid flavour. ..."
6. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1901)
"Flesh crisp, juicy, white, a little coarse, pleasantly subacid. ... Flesh yellowish,
crisp, not juicy, subacid with a pleasant flavour. Season, September. ..."
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