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Sorbin

Sor′bin

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Noun.
(Chem.)
An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; – called also
mountain-ash sugar
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Definition 2024

sorbin

sorbin

English

Noun

sorbin ‎(uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb.

Etymology

sorb +‎ -in

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