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 in Rowan berries, and used as a preservative

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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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