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- Latin · derived fromsorbum“the rowan or serviceberry”
- English todaysorbic acid
Latin sorbum (“the rowan or serviceberry”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sorbic acid
Today it means: an unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid, CH₃.CH:CH.CH:CH.COOH, found in Rowan berries, and used as a preservative Full definition →
Latin sorbum