imbibition

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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

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

If it be summer, there should be a lump of ice in the crystal goblet; and the connoisseur will always hold it between him and the sunlight before imbibition, and ejaculate, "There's a picture!"

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

The pellicle prevents imbibition, diffusion, and the consequent disintegration.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

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