单词 | acid-sweet |
释义 | > as lemmasacid-sweet acid-sweet adj. [compare earlier dulcacid adj.] that tastes both sharp (or sour) and sweet.In quot. 1678 used elliptically as subject of clause. ΚΠ 1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa xi. 9 Sweet is the best of all Savours, insipid next; acid-sweet [Fr. la douce acide] holds the third place, bitter-sweet the fourth, sweet and stiptick the fifth. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum The Rind has a spongy Substance next to it, and with an acid sweet Juice. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. 317 Apples and pears..are an agreeable acid-sweet summer fruit. 1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) xi. 274 The strawberry guava..is an ‘almost ideal fruit: slightly acid-sweet, fragrant, nutritious’. 2007 Patriot News (Harrisburg, Pa.) (Nexis) 31 May (Go! section) g19 Slices of zucchini and yellow squash make a soft pillow for the onions and acid-sweet tomatoes to rest on. < as lemmas |
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