sourness sour acidity | the property of being acidic |
sour sourness tartness | the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth |
sour grapes | disparagement of something that is unattainable |
sour bread sourdough bread | made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active |
bitter orange Seville orange sour orange | highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade |
sour cherry | acid cherries used for pies and preserves |
sour gourd | acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds |
sour gourd monkey bread | African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp |
sour salt | crystals of citric acid used as seasoning |
sour milk | milk that has turned sour |
sour cream soured cream | artificially soured light cream |
sour mash sour mash whiskey | any whiskey distilled from sour mash |
sour | a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar |
whiskey sour whisky sour | a sour made with whiskey |
Hottentot fig Hottentot's fig sour fig Carpobrotus edulis Mesembryanthemum edule | low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp |
cream-of-tartar tree sour gourd Adansonia gregorii | Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd |
sour cherry Eugenia corynantha | Australian tree with sour red fruit |
Nyssaceae family Nyssaceae sour-gum family tupelo family | a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees |
sour gum black gum pepperidge Nyssa sylvatica | columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall |
dock sorrel sour grass | any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine |
sour dock garden sorrel Rumex acetosa | European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens |
sour cherry sour cherry tree Prunus cerasus | rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit |
sour orange Seville orange bitter orange bitter orange tree bigarade marmalade orange Citrus aurantium | any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit, used as grafting stock |
sour mash | a mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation, a mixture of old and new mash, used in distilling some whiskeys |
sour turn ferment work d | go sour or spoil, The milk has soured, The wine worked, The cream has turned--we have to throw it out |
sour acidify acidulate acetify | make sour or more sour |
sour rancid | smelling of fermentation or staleness |
dark dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen | showing a brooding ill humor, a dark scowl, the proverbially dour New England Puritan, a glum, hopeless shrug, he sat in moody silence, a morose and unsociable manner, a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius- Bruce Bliven, a sour temper, a sullen crowd |
false off-key sour | inaccurate in pitch, a false (or sour) note, her singing was off key |
sour | having a sharp biting taste |
off sour turned | in an unpalatable state, sour milk |
acid-tasting sour-tasting | having a sour acidic taste |
sour | one of the four basic taste sensations, like the taste of vinegar or lemons |