- Also called: sorb a Eurasian rosaceous tree, Sorbus domestica, cultivated for its white flowers and brown edible apple-like fruits
- wild service tree ⇒ a similar and related Eurasian tree, Sorbus torminalis
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serv′ice tree′,
- Plant Biologyeither of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree,) bearing a similar fruit.
- Plant Biologyserviceberry (defs. 2, 3).
- 1535–45
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