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Webster 1913 Edition

Sorbite

Sor′bite

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Noun.

[L.

sorbus

service tree.]

(Chem.)

A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.

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Sor-bit′ic

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Adj.