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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

sorbus the tree

sorbum

the fruit; cf. F.

sorbe

. See

(Bot.)

(a)

The wild service tree (

Pyrus torminalis

) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.

(b)

The fruit of these trees.

Sorb apple

the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.

–

Sorb tree

the wild service tree.

Noun.

[L. sorbum, sorbus.] The service tree or its fruit .