resorbent
See also: résorbent
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin resorbens, present participle of resorbere.
Adjective
editresorbent (comparative more resorbent, superlative most resorbent)
- swallowing up
- 1760, Michael Wodhull, Ode to the Muses:
- Again resorbent ocean's wave / Demands the waters which it gave / From thousand rills with copious currents fraught.
Latin
editVerb
editresorbent