different between acid vs ericaceous

English

Etymology

From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from ace? (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s'?d, IPA^(key): /?æs.?d/
• Hyphenation: a?cid
• Rhymes: -æs?d

Adjective

acid (comparative more acid, superlative most acid)

1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.

2. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
   • 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, Smith, Elder & Co., 2nd Edition, Volume 2, page 235,

     His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.

   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

3. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
4. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:acid.

Synonyms

• acidic

Antonyms

• alkaline
• base

Derived terms

• acid rock
• acid jazz
• acid house

Translations

Noun

acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)

1. A sour substance.
2. (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:
   1. Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
   2. Any compound that easily donates protons; a Brønsted acid
   3. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
3. (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.

Antonyms

• alkali
• base

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:acid

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• acerbic
• acro-
• pH

References

• acid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -adic, Daic, adic, cadi, caid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?t??id]

Adjective

acid m or n (feminine singular acid?, masculine plural acizi, feminine and neuter plural acide)

1. acid, acidic

Declension

Related terms

• aciditate

Noun

acid m (plural acizi)

1. acid

Declension

Derived terms

• acid dezoxiribonucleic

Further reading

• acid in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Adjective

ericaceous (comparative more ericaceous, superlative most ericaceous)

1. (botany) Of or pertaining to the heath family (Ericaceae).
2. (especially of a plant) Acid-loving, thriving in acidic conditions.

   Ericaceous plants include camellias, hollies, hydrangeas, and maples as well as members of the Ericaceae.
3. acidic, acid-based

   Camellias thrive when fed with an ericaceous fertiliser.

Synonyms

• (acid-loving): calcifugal, calcifugous

See also

• calcifuge

References

• ericaceous at OneLook Dictionary Search
• ericaceous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Ericaceae at APWeb