sorb

Etymology 1
Borrowed from (the tree),  (the fruit), from  (the tree),  (the fruit). See.

Noun

 * 1) The service tree,.
 * 2) Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
 * 3) The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.

Translations

 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Welsh: criafol


 * French: ,
 * Galician: rañote,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄον
 * Latin:
 * Spanish: serba
 * Welsh: criafol

Etymology 2
Ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1)  To absorb or adsorb.
 * 2) * 1971, E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, Radioactivity in the marine environment, page 148,
 * In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1) wild service tree

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1) whirlpool
 * 2) strainer