Usually means: Materials that soak up liquids.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. absorbents: Merriam-Webster
  2. absorbents: Collins English Dictionary
  3. absorbents: Vocabulary.com
  4. Absorbents, absorbents: Wordnik
  5. absorbents: Wiktionary
  6. absorbents: Dictionary.com
  7. absorbents: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absorbents: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absorbents: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. absorbents: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. absorbents: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See absorbent as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (absorbent)

adjective:  Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
noun:  Anything which absorbs.
noun:  (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
noun:  (medicine) 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.
noun:  (physical chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
▸ Also see absorbent


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