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Sorbus
Sorbus
See also: sorbus
Translingual
Proper noun
Sorbus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – about 100–200 species of trees, including whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and mountain ash.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Rosales - order; Rosaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Sorbus aucuparia - type species
- Sorbus subg. Albocarmesinae, Sorbus subg. Aria, Sorbus subg. Chamaemespilus, Sorbus subg. Cormus, Sorbus subg. Micromeles, Sorbus subg. Sorbus, Sorbus subg. Torminaria - subgenera
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Sorbus torminalis, Sorbus domestica - selected species; for other species see
Sorbus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons .
sorbus
sorbus
See also: Sorbus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sor- / *ser- (“red, reddish-brown”).
Noun
sorbus
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: sorb, serviceberry
- Italian: sorbo
- Romanian: sorb
- Spanish: suerbo
References
- sorbus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sorbus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.