mountain-ash sugar

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mountain-ash sugar - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sorbin \Sor"bin\, n. (Chem.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]