noun
1. medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit
• Syn: ↑service tree, ↑sorb apple tree, ↑Sorbus domestica
• Hypernyms: ↑mountain ash
• Hyponyms: ↑wild service tree, ↑Sorbus torminalis
• Part Meronyms: ↑sorb
2. acid gritty-textured fruit
• Syn: ↑sorb
• Hypernyms: ↑edible fruit
• Part Holonyms: ↑service tree, ↑sorb apple tree, ↑Sorbus domestica
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nounsee sorb II, 2
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sorb apple,
1. the fruit of the service tree.
2. the tree.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.