sorb

noun3

1. •
   The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
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.

verb1

1. •
   To absorb or adsorb.

   • In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2). — 1971

noun1

1. •
   A member of a Slavic people living in Lusatia in eastern Germany.