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Definition of Acidulous

Acidulous
Acidulous A*cid"u*lous, a. [L. acidulus, dim. of acidus. See Acid.] Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. --E. Burke. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride.

Meaning of Acidulous from wikipedia

- by a collapse of the cave roof, which was eaten away by warm carbonic acidulous spring water in limestone. "Exclusive: Deepest Underwater Cave Discovered"...
- German: Eristische Dialektik: Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten; 1831) is an acidulous, sarcastic treatise written by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer...
- sterile places all over India. The plant yields an abundance of a mildly acidulous milky juice, and travellers suck its tender shoots to allay thirst. Traditional...
- her to play Joan of Arc in his Saint Joan, and had then cast her in his acidulous 1958 adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse. Her performance in this film had...
- Bílinská kyselka (in English: Biliner, Bílina acidulous water) is strongly mineralized alkaline bicarbonate (i.e. 5 to 7 grams per litre) mineral water...
- thereafter, "not only would the instrument lose its warmth and become thin and acidulous, but the altitudinous p****ages would to her no longer come easily." It...
- The 1889 book 'Useful native plants of Australia' states that "The dry acidulous pulp of the fruit is eaten. It has an agreeable taste, like cream of tartar...
- one side of the house in perpetual shadow, staining the wall with green acidulous mould. But the half-buried beauty of the place leaped to my eye." Edward's...
- acidic, sour Latin acidus acidiferous, acidity, acidosis, acidulation, acidulous acr- height, summit, tip Gr**** ἀκή (akḗ), ἄκρος (ákros) "high", "extreme"...
- Cabell's claim to romanticism and characterized him as "really the most acidulous of all the anti-romantics. His gaudy heroes ... chase dragons precisely...
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