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adj. Capable of absorbing: absorbent cotton.

n. A substance that is capable of absorbing.

n. 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.

n. A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

adj. Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

n. Anything which absorbs.

n. 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.

n. The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

Absorbing or capable of absorbing; imbibing; swallowing; performing the function of absorption: as, absorbent vessels; the absorbent system.

n. Anything which absorbs.

adj. having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)

n. a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance

"From the time your child is an infant until he is about 3, he has what Maria Montessori called an absorbent mind."

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