pectic acid

1. 1.

   a complex acid that occurs in ripe fruit and some vegetables

   Broaderacid

Questions about pectic acid

What does pectic acid mean?

pectic acid means "a complex acid that occurs in ripe fruit and some vegetables".

Is pectic acid a common word?

pectic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.