sub-acid

Its main sources are all kinds of nuts, seeds, vegetables and sub-acid fruits.

Amino acids and Their Importance to Human Health 2009

Made with the necessary in-season juicy sub-acid local tomato, crispy bacon, tender lettuce, and a slick of mayo, this is a unequaled flavor and texture extravaganza which, as far as I know, has no precise non-american equivalent.

Cake Lindy 2009

Made with the necessary in-season juicy sub-acid local tomato, crispy bacon, tender lettuce, and a slick of mayo, this is a unequaled flavor and texture extravaganza which, as far as I know, has no precise non-american equivalent.

Great Plain Lindy 2008

The toilet — as modern times would say — of the Countess, was not nearly so soon ended as that of Count Robert, who occupied his time, as husbands of every period are apt to do, in little sub-acid complaints between jest and earnest, upon the dilatory nature of ladies, and the time which they lose in doffing and donning their garments.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Mother and daughter had the pinched sub-acid dignity characteristic of those who have learned by experience the exact value of expressions of sympathy; they belonged to a class which the world delights to pity; they had been the objects of the benevolent interest of egoism; they had sounded the empty void beneath the consoling formulas with which the world ministers to the necessities of the unfortunate.

Two Poets 2007

Mother and daughter had the pinched sub-acid dignity characteristic of those who have learned by experience the exact value of expressions of sympathy; they belonged to a class which the world delights to pity; they had been the objects of the benevolent interest of egoism; they had sounded the empty void beneath the consoling formulas with which the world ministers to the necessities of the unfortunate.

Two Poets 2007

Gorse, and their subversive shafts; as to the Forsytes — out of the question; they had their own sub-acid humour (some of them), but they were not modern, not really modern.

The White Monkey 2004

Baggage! ... the usual smooth and sub-acid description of the defendant! ...

The Silver Spoon 2004

Large plate of fresh raw sub-acid fruits: grapes, apples, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines no acid fruits or bananas or dried fruits

The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

Modern theologians are at worst merely sub-acid, and do not always say so, if they think so.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various