Sorb

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  • noun. Any of several Eurasian trees of the genus Sorbus of the rose family, especially a service tree.
  • noun. The fruit of any of these plants.
  • transitive verb. To take up and hold, as by absorption or adsorption.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A member of a Slavic race resident in Saxony and adjoining parts of Prussia. Also called Wend, or Lusatian Wend.
  • noun. The service-tree, Pyrus (Sorbus) domestica.
  • noun. The fruit of any of the above-named trees.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
  • noun. The fruit of these trees.
  • noun. the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.
  • noun. the wild service tree.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe.
  • noun. The rowan tree.
  • noun. The fruit of either of these trees.
  • verb. To absorb or adsorb.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
  • noun. acid gritty-textured fruit
  • Word Usage
    "Typhoid epizootic sorb increased depends upon srm-rhotard vaccine."
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    absorb  adsorb  assimilate  blot  blot up