imbibition
Example Sentences
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The most jovial of the celebrants tells of his early imbibition of red ink.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
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 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The glands secrete a yellowish viscid fluid, by *The distinction between true absorption and mere permeation, or imbibition, is by no means clearly understood: see Mller's 'Physiology,' Eng. translat.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
Theories are put forward, most learned theories, introducing capillary action, osmosis and cellular imbibition, to explain why the caulicle ascends and the radical descends.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
I proceeded with the imbibition of Father McPhilpin's excellent tea.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
