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Word: absorbent (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • absorbing liquids; swallowing; absorptive.

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Noun:

  • Anything which absorbs.
  • 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.
  • physiology|pluralized The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

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