Word Meanings - SORBIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C

Related words: (words related to SORBIC)

• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ROWAN TREE
  A european tree related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• DESIGNATORY
  Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
• ROWAN
  Rowan tree. Rowan barry, a barry of the rowan tree.
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• DESIGNATION
  1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• GROWAN
  A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
• PREOBTAIN
  To obtain beforehand.
• PREINDESIGNATE
  Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.