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absorbent
Noun
- Anything which absorbs.
- Quotations
- The ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat. — Darwin
- Quotations
- (Medicine): Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
- (plural, Physiology): The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
9 letters in word "absorbent": A B B E N O R S T.
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