Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white crystalline solid, C6H8O2, first obtained from berries of the rowan and now prepared synthetically, used as a food preservative and fungicide.
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- noun chemistry an
unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid , CH3.CH:CH.CH:CH.COOH, found inRowan berries , and used as apreservative
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- noun a white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From sorb.]
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Latin sorbum, the rowan or serviceberry
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