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Sorb

verb

Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption. Synonym: take up.

noun

Acid gritty-textured fruit. Synonym: sorb apple.

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... spermogonia. The spermatia were discharged, and in two months from the first sowing, the peridia of Roestelia appeared, and were developed. "This trial of spores," says Oersted, "has conduced to the result expected, and proves that the teleutospores of Gymnosporangium, when transported upon the sorb, give rise to a totally different fungus, the Roestelia cornuta, that is to say, that an alternate generation comes between these fungi. They appertain in consequence to a single species, and the Gymnosporangium ceased to be an independent species, and must be considered as synonymous with the ...

— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

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... I dreamed that here waxed two sorb-tree (1) saplings, and fain I was that they should have no scathe of me; then these were riven up by the roots and reddened with blood, and borne to the bench, and I was ...

— The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) - With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda • Anonymous

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