Word Meaning

Meaning of "absorbent" and the crossword clue

- Able to soak up liquid
- Like blotting paper
- Sponge-like
- Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
- Anything which absorbs.
- Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
- The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.