subacid

• “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.”

  The Marquis of Lossie

• “The fruits are usually insipid, occasionally subacid or acid.”

  Strange Fruit (No. 5): Sweet Lemons

• “Lansats, two of the most delicious of the subacid tropical fruits.”

  The Malay Archipelago

• “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.”

  The Malay Archipelago

• “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.”

  A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

• “The inhabitants eat the stalks, which are subacid, and tan leather with the roots, and prepare a black dye from them.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “Harvest mandarin oranges when they show color break and their juice turns subacid.”

  Chapter 21

• “When arrived at its full growth, and before it is ripe, it is gathered and eaten like any other fruit, the taste being subacid.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “The sweet, subacid, mucilaginous juice is much esteemed as a pectoral.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “The inhabitants eat the stalks, which are subacid, tan leather with the roots, and also prepare a black dye from them.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

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