Definition of Sorb apple

1. Noun. Medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit.

Exact synonyms: Service Tree, Sorb Apple Tree, Sorbus Domestica
Terms within: Sorb
Generic synonyms: Mountain Ash
Specialized synonyms: Sorbus Torminalis, Wild Service Tree

2. Noun. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
Exact synonyms: Sorb
Generic synonyms: Edible Fruit
Group relationships: Service Tree, Sorb Apple Tree, Sorbus Domestica

Definition of Sorb apple

1. Noun. A European fruit tree, ''Sorbus domestica'', also called the service tree ¹

2. Noun. The fruit of this tree, also called the sorb ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorb Apple

soprano clef
sopranoes
sopranolike
sopranos
sops
sorafenib
sorage
sorages
soraismus
soral
soras
sorb
sorb-apple
sorb-apples
sorb apple (current term)
sorb apple tree
sorb apples
sorbabilities
sorbability
sorbable
sorbaria
sorbarias
sorbate
sorbates
sorbed
sorbefacient
sorbefacients
sorbent
sorbent material

Literary usage of Sorb apple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... SORB-APPLE, ». The fruit of the service-tree. Some mile of this town, we were S'-t Hpf Bv a tort of country ..."

2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"... SORB-APPLE, s. The fruit of the service-tree. Some mile o' this town, we were set upon By a sort of country fellows. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"... steadfastly maintained the liberties of the Gallican church (qv), opposed the VOL. xi. 42 sorb apple ; the fruit of the service tree. (See Service Tree. ..."

4. New English and Italian Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary by John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti (1889)
"Í. to soar, fly high; to By merely for pleasure (as ihe hawk) Sorba, if. service, sorb-apple ... sorb-apple-tree ..."

5. Dizionario delle lingue italiana ed ingleseby Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1807)
"Sorb», sf service, sorb-apple. ... a.lj. tj^tiii'4 like a sorb-apple; of a rough or sour taste. ..."

6. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1838)
"One sort of tree is seen here more frequently than the others, and that is the sorb-apple, many of which appear hundreds of years old. One of these trees, ..."

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