Crossword-Solution: ACIDULOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Acidulous | a. | Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “ACIDULOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ACIDULENT | 1 answer |
| SLIGHTLY tart | 1 answer |
| Sharp with asperity. | 1 answer |
| Slightly sour | 1 answer |
| Tartish | 1 answer |
| archilochian | 5 answers |
| Sourish. | 5 answers |
| acetose | 6 answers |
| Acidic | 14 answers |
| acerb | 23 answers |
| Acerbic | 24 answers |
| CAUSTIC ___ | 42 answers |
| Tart | 70 answers |
| Sour | 80 answers |
| Dry | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
CARENO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ACIDULOUS (5)
Must it not be a wilderness forever? Here an acidulous-looking gentleman in blue glasses, with bows of Berlin steel, who has taken a seat at the extremity of the front row, begins, at this early stage of the exhibition, to criticise.
Harry's father died, Harry became senior partner in the Bon Ton Store, and Juanita was more acidulous and shrewd and cackling than ever.
While sitting on this soft-cushioned log, tasting the pungent acidulous wood-sorrel, the blossoms of which, large and pink-veined, rise everywhere above the moss, a rufous-colored bird flies quickly past, and, alighting on a low limb a few rods off, salutes me with "Whew! Whew!" or "Whoit! Whoit!" almost as you would whistle for your dog.
The seeds, when young, had an agreeable taste, and the tissue, when dry, was pleasantly acidulous, and was eaten by some of my companions without any ill effect, whilst others, with myself, were severely purged.
But the specimen admits of a partial substitute for this; for the surface is worn down and roughly polished, as is the case with all the exposed surfaces of ancient limestones in Australia; the result probably of the acidulous properties of rain water, or of the atmosphere, which, in a tropical climate, where violent showers alternate with great drought, is capable of producing various sensible changes in rocks in a long series of ages.
Quotes with ACIDULOUS (1)
Only eight months had gone since Henry VIII of England had been suspended in death, there to lie like Mohammed’s coffin, hardly in the Church nor out of it, attended by his martyrs and the acidulous fivefold ghosts of his wives. King Francis of France, stranded by his neighbour’s death in the midst of a policy so advanced, so brilliant and so intricate that it should at last batter England to the ground, and be damned to the best legs in Europe — Francis, bereft of these swee…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1950–2004).