English-Dutch translations for absorbent

• absorbens
• absorberend
  Verder is de categorie farmaceutische producten uitgebreid tot alle absorberende hygiëneproducten, in het bijzonder luiers voor kinderen en medische benodigdheden voor gehandicapten. Also, the category of pharmaceutical products is widened to cover all absorbent hygiene products, particularly children's nappies and medical equipment for the disabled.
• opzuigend
• wateropnemend

Definition of absorbent

• Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
• Anything which absorbs.
• The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
• A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining

Examples

• Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill

Related words

• absorbency
• absorbently
• absorbent cotton
• water absorbency