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Sorbin
- - An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
Sordid
- adjective - Dirty
- foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
- meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
- morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
- unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
Sortie
- noun - (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
Sothic
- - Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.
Sothis
- noun - the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major
Sow In
- verb - place seeds in or on (the ground); "sow the ground with sunflower seeds"
Spadix
- noun - the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe
Sparid
- noun - spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth
Spavin
- noun - a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness
Specie
- noun - coins collectively