1. Having a sharp biting taste.
2. One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons.
3. Smelling of fermentation or staleness; SYN. rancid.

Množina: sours

1. A liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar.
2. The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth; SYN. sourness, tartness.

ETYM as. soerian to sour, to become sour.
1. To go sour or spoil; SYN. turn, ferment.
2. To make sour or more sour; SYN. acidify, acidulate, acetify.

Množina: sour balls

Round piece of tart hard candy, a spherical hard candy having a tart flavor.

SIngular of sour cherries is sour cherry.

Množina: sour cherries

1. Australian tree with sour red fruit; SYN. Eugenia corynantha.
2. Acid cherries used for pies and preserves.
3. Rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit; SYN. sour cherry tree, Prunus cerasus.

Množina: sour creams

Artificially soured light cream; SYN. soured cream.

Množina: sour docks

European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens; SYN. garden sorrel, Rumex acetosa.

Množina: sour gourds

1. African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp; SYN. monkey bread.
2. Acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds.

Singular of sour grapes is sour grape.

Disparagement of something that is unattainable.

Množina: sour grasses

Sorrel.

Množina: sour gums

Columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall; SYN. black gum, pepperidge, Nyssa sylvatica.

Množina: Sour Lakes

City in Texas (USA); zip code 77659.

Množina: sour mashes

1. A mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation; a mixture of old and new mash; used in distilling some whiskeys.
2. Any whiskey distilled from sour mash; SYN. sour mash whiskey.

Množina: sour oranges

Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock; SYN. Seville orange, bitter orange, bitter orange tree, bigarade, marmalade orange, Citrus aurantium.