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Sorb

verb
1.
Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption.  Synonym: take up.



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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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