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Service tree

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Noun
  1. 1
    Either of two rare Old World deciduous trees, Sorbus domestica or Sorbus torminalis.

    "Wild cherry and rowan, as well as wild apple, wild pear, wild service tree, whitebeam, and true service tree, are all affected by being nibbled by voles, mice and other wild animals."

  2. 2
    any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit wordnet
  3. 3
    medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit wordnet

Etymology

Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb.

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