Chem. [f. SORBITE1 + -OL.] An unfermentable saccharine principle found in the berries of the mountain-ash.
1895. Naturalist, 24. The unripe berries have much malic acid,… also amygdalin, emulsin, sorbitol. Ibid. (1898), 187. Mannite and another alcoholic sugar called sorbitol.
