imbibition

Example Sentences

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Delayed by the mirror to the extent of having consumed but half of his refreshing draft, yet purposing further imbibition, Judge Henderson paused at the sound of some person ascending the outer stair.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson

A division is sometimes made into Mandibulate and Haustellate groups, the oral apparatus of the former being adapted for mastication, the latter for imbibition of liquid food.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

The scent of Thelephora fastidiosa is bad enough, but, like that of Coprinus picaceus, it is probably derived from the imbibition of the ordure on which it is developed.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Surface-energy is also expressed in the powerful attractions for water exhibited in imbibition, swelling, capillarity, absorption, surface tensions, etc.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

The amoeba either takes its food directly by imbibition of matter floating in the water, or by pressing into its protoplasmic body solid particles with which it comes in contact.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August