Crossword clues for sorb
sorb
- Take up like a sponge
- Gather on a surface, chemically
- European fruit tree
- Gather on the surface, chemically
- Collect on the surface, in chemistry
- Take up and hold, chemically
- Acid gritty-textured fruit
- Service tree
- Tree of the rose family
- Soak up
- Kind of apple
- Rowan tree
- European tree
- European apple
- Tree of the apple family
- Rowan, e.g.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sorb \Sorb\, n.[L. sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf. F. sorbe. See Service tree.] (Bot.)
The wild service tree ( Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
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The fruit of these trees.
Sorb apple, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.
Sorb tree, the wild service tree.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1843, from German Sorbe, from Slavic Serb, the national designation. Slavic people surviving in Lusatia, eastern Saxony, also known as Wends. Related: Sorbian (1836); earlier Sorabian (1788), from Medieval Latin Sorabi.
"fruit of the service tree," 1520s, from French sorbe, from Latin sorbum "service-berry" (small, edible fruit of the European mountain ash), from sorbus, of uncertain origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The wild service tree (''Sorbus torminalis'') of Europe. 2 The rowan tree. 3 The fruit of either of these trees. vb. (context chemistry English) To absorb or adsorb.
WordNet
v. take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption [syn: take up]
n. acid gritty-textured fruit [syn: sorb apple]
Wikipedia
Sorb may refer to:
- Sorbs, a Slavic ethnic group
- Sorbus, a genus of trees
:* Sorbus domestica, a species belonging to the Sorbus genus
:* Sorbus aucuparia, a species belonging to the Sorbus genus
:* Sorbus torminalis, a species belonging to the Sorbus genus
- Sorb, the fruit of the true service tree, a.k.a. sorb tree (Sorbus domestica)
- Sorption, the action of both absorption and adsorption
Usage examples of "sorb".
Easing in a deep, tremull breath, she turned her face against his neck, trying to sorb as much of his warmth and strength as she cot Enough to get her through this.
And from this sand grew plants and bushes in unimaginable abundance: flowering cactus with bright rose-coloured flowers, fleshy green plants like warus, but with big yellow flowers, sorb apple, Rose of Jericho, bright green euphorbias and dozens of others that Niall had never seen or imagined.
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Again he was absorbed in his duties as agent of the Standard Oil Company.
Spock tried to tell whether or not the scraggly Kzin telepath was concentrating on him, then decided that if anything he was still wholly abet STAR TREK TEN 71 sorbed with monitoring his fellows and possibly also Sulu.
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And from this sand grew plants and bushes in unimaginable abundance: flowering cactus with bright rose-coloured flowers, fleshy green plants like warus, but with big yellow flowers, sorb apple, Rose of Jericho, bright green euphorbias and dozens of others that Niall had never seen or imagined.